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- Subject: Re: A tricky way to determine Lua version
- From: Pierre-Yves Gérardy <pygy79@...>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 22:59:51 +0200
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 9:42 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2018-06-29 17:17 GMT+02:00 Pierre-Yves Gérardy <pygy79@gmail.com>:
>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:32 PM, Thijs Schreijer
>> <thijs@thijsschreijer.nl> wrote:
>>> It also misses detection of LuaJIT’s 5.2 compatibility flag
>>
>> Feature detection is sometimes more actionable than version detection.
>
> I love that word! Now I know Afrikaans got it from French!
>
> In Afrikaans, "aksionabel" (in dialect spelt "aksenawel") means
> "appropriate", "just right". Which I think is what you mean?
>
> In English, it means "affording grounds for legal action".
Actually, the word doesn't exist in French :-)
I meant it in the second definition according to [0]:
"Relating to or being information that allows a decision to be made or
action to be taken."
—Pierre-Yves
0. https://www.wordnik.com/words/actionable
