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- Subject: Re: Lua and backwards compatibility - was Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.4 (rc2) now available,
- From: Sean Conner <sean@...>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 02:32:18 -0500
It was thus said that the Great Martin once stated:
> On 17-01-22 02:46 PM, Sean Conner wrote:
> > It was thus said that the Great Las once stated:
> >> "Once LuaJIT will support 5.3"
> >> never. Mike Pall said that he isn't going to, so it would have to be a fork
> >> of LuaJIT.
> >
> > "Never" while Mike was maintaining it. He's looking for a person (or
> > persons) to take over the project but so far, no one has really stepped up.
> >
> > -spc
>
> BTW what the differences between 5.1 and 5.3 that make it so hard to
> update code generator?
Two big ones---__ENV vs. setfenv()/getfenv() and true 64bit integers.
-spc
- References:
- Lua and backwards compatibility - was Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.4 (rc2) now available,, Dibyendu Majumdar
- Re: Lua and backwards compatibility - was Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.4 (rc2) now available,, William Ahern
- Re: Lua and backwards compatibility - was Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.4 (rc2) now available,, Dirk Laurie
- Re: Lua and backwards compatibility - was Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.4 (rc2) now available,, Charles Heywood
- Re: Lua and backwards compatibility - was Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.4 (rc2) now available,, tomas
- Re: Lua and backwards compatibility - was Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.4 (rc2) now available,, Dibyendu Majumdar
- Re: Lua and backwards compatibility - was Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.4 (rc2) now available,, Bulat Ziganshin
- Re: Lua and backwards compatibility - was Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.4 (rc2) now available,, Las
- Re: Lua and backwards compatibility - was Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.4 (rc2) now available,, Sean Conner
- Re: Lua and backwards compatibility - was Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.4 (rc2) now available,, Martin