Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.4 (rc3) now available

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2017-01-25 2:37 GMT+02:00 Daurnimator <quae@daurnimator.com>:
> On 25 January 2017 at 11:02, Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 24, 2017 8:12 AM, "Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo"
>> <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>>
>>> > Is there a tentative release date for 5.3.4 or will there be an rc4
>>> > before the final release?
>>>
>>> It does seem plausible that there will only be an rc4 if some
>>> problem with 5.3.3 is reported in the next six days or so.
>>
>> Exactly. Now is the time to report glitches.
>>
>> I've been using it since last night, no issues so far. It definitely fixed
>> the coroutine resume bug in previous versions. (I thought the frequent
>> crashes were the host app's fault, but since updating Lua, it's totally
>> stable.)
>
> I have been using this -rc for the last week. No issues to report.
>
> And I'm really enjoying the __name in tostring() output!

It is an undocumented feature, though. The manual says:

(The entry __name is used by some error-reporting functions.)

tostring() is not an error-reporting function.

Maybe the manual could merely say:

(The entry __name is used by some reporting functions.)