Re: Usage of _PROMPT and _PROMPT2

[Jonathan Goble <jcgoble3@...>]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 6:49 AM, Roberto Ierusalimschy
<roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> We have considered removing this feature, as it seems that very few
> people use it (even less now, as it is not documented :-) and its
> benefits to the language seem quite small (if any). But in the end
> we did not reach a final decision and so it was left as it is now
> (implemented but not documented).

I use it via LUA_INIT, to mimic the Python interactive prompts ('>>> '
and '... '). For me, it's simply personal preference.