Re: Lua 5.3 features in the horizon?
- From: Hisham <h@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 15:18:40 -0300
On 27 March 2014 15:14, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Hisham <h@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> If Lua 5.3.0 final gets the new features that are in the work versions
>> (namely the 64-bit integer type, bitwise operators, utf8 module), any
>> chance we'll see them in LuaJIT? Feedback to those features in the Lua
>> list has been very positive, so my guess is that those features are
>> coming for good.
>
> I've heard some utterly negative feedback about the design 64--bit
> integers in 5.3.
Was it in lua-l? I might have missed it. I read some concerns (and
have some concerns myself) about the number-string conversions and
".0" appearing in places where they don't in 5.1/5.2. Apart from that
people seemed pretty pleased.
-- Hisham
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