Re: A rant about backward-incompatible changes

[Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@...>]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 00:05:23 +0900, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On 15/07/2015 00:03, Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> > The one Lua-based project I have which really doesn't play nicely with multiple
> > lua versions simply refuses to work if the version is not the one it is written
> > for.
> 
> I think the take-away here is that each minor revision of Lua should be
> regarded as a different language. If that's the policy, then, fine, I'll
> run with it.

It's certainly how I run with it.  Some of my work can be used in more than
one of these sub-languages, but not always.

D.

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