Re: Lua and backwards compatibility - was Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.4 (rc2) now available,

[Charles Heywood <vandor2012@...>]

There's also the addition of bitwise operators versus using a library, as well as labels and goto - although both of those are additions more than they are backwards incompatible (excluding the library).

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 1:32 AM Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:

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

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