Re: [ANN] Lua 5.4.0 (alpha-rc1) now available

["Soni \"They/Them\" L." <fakedme@...>]

On 2019-05-29 9:38 p.m., Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> Lua 5.4.0 (alpha-rc1) is now available for testing at
> 	http://www.lua.org/work/lua-5.4.0-alpha-rc1.tar.gz
>
> The checksums are
> 	MD5	56f18a477f5a962eeca4d5bb0ccad34b  -
> 	SHA1	def2b1be4c0a4eaab8afd25c8ba87f6a42074f3b  -
>
> This is an alpha version. Some details may change in the final version.
>
> The main changes in Lua 5.4.0 are listed at
> 	http://www.lua.org/work/doc/#changes
>
> An updated reference manual is included and also available at
> 	http://www.lua.org/work/doc
>
> The complete diffs from work2 to alpha are available at
> 	http://www.lua.org/work/diffs-lua-5.4.0-work2-alpha.html
> 	http://www.lua.org/work/diffu-lua-5.4.0-work2-alpha.html
>
> If your platform is a common Unix-like platform, just do
> 	make guess
> The Makefile will guess your platform using uname and build Lua for it.
>
> All feedback welcome. Thanks.
> --lhf

I guess no more goto in loops since you need to provide your own locals now.

for i=1,10 do
::retry::
if foo(i) then
i = something -- :(
goto retry
end
end

I also wonder if this works:

::foo::
local <const> x = 1
goto foo

I'll test it another time, maybe