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

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

Op Do. 13 Jun. 2019 om 15:36 het Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
<lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> geskryf:
>
> Lua 5.4.0 (alpha) has been frozen and is now available for testing at
>         http://www.lua.org/work/lua-5.4.0-alpha.tar.gz
>
> The checksums are
>         MD5     d49d30b394794b96ffad53513ac647a5  -
>         SHA1    cf3559dc43cad35463740c6fbedeb1ea501e5e23  -
>
> 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 of changes are available at
>         http://www.lua.org/work/
>
> 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.
> We welcome feedback on this, which is new, especially more uname targets
> with explicit rules and fixes for existing ones.
>
> We also welcome feedback on the listings output by luac -l -l, because
> luac has been rewritten to account for the new VM instructions.
>
> All feedback welcome. Thanks.

Why does the syntax not allow e.g. the following?

local <const> x,y = 1,2