Re: Where can I download the Lua 5.1's manual?

[Niccolo Medici <niccolomedici@...>]

On 6/30/16, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>
> Which version of 5.1 do you mean?

I downloaded the tarball from:

https://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.1.tar.gz

>
> The manual in lua.org and in the tarball should be almost identical

This "almost identical" is a huge time waster. Let me explain:

Since I couldn't see 'lua_isnoneornil' in my documentation (from the
tarball) I concluded that Lua 5.1 doesn't have it. So I embarked on
writing my own implementation for it. Since I want to cover the cases
where it's implemented (in later Lua version) as either a macro or
function I also have to add a feature test to 'configure.ac'
(autotools). I also need to test that my setup compiles correctly on
all Lua versions.

So, while for you it's "almost identical", for a programmer it means a
difference of a couple extra hours of work.

At the moment I don't know what other functions are missing from the
documentation in the tarball (one can't know just from a cursory
glance).