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- Subject: Re: Upcoming changes in Lua 5.4
- From: Sean Conner <sean@...>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 20:04:02 -0500
It was thus said that the Great Paige DePol once stated:
> Soni They/Them L. <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The main difference between Lua 5.3 and "Lua 5.4" is that Lua 5.3 does TCO
> > of varargs, I think. This isn't (yet) possible with "Lua 5.4" (but it'd be
> > nice if it was).
>
> What do you mean by TCO? Also why quote "Lua 5.4" like that, the GitHub
> source code identifies itself as Lua 5.4 now.
Tail call optimization---basically a form of GOTO.
-spc
- References:
- Re: Upcoming changes in Lua 5.4, Roberto Ierusalimschy
- Re: Upcoming changes in Lua 5.4, Michael Nelson
- Re: Upcoming changes in Lua 5.4, Paige DePol
- Re: Upcoming changes in Lua 5.4, Roberto Ierusalimschy
- Re: Upcoming changes in Lua 5.4, Egor Skriptunoff
- Re: Upcoming changes in Lua 5.4, dyngeccetor8
- Re: Upcoming changes in Lua 5.4, Soni "They/Them" L.
- Re: Upcoming changes in Lua 5.4, dyngeccetor8
- Re: Upcoming changes in Lua 5.4, Soni "They/Them" L.
- Re: Upcoming changes in Lua 5.4, Paige DePol