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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