Re: Lua 5.3 features in the horizon?
- From: Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: LuaJIT Mailing List <luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 22:22:45 +0400
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Hisham <h@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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 do not think so, but I may be wrong.
> 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.
People who did have that feedback are reading this list (maybe
"uttely" is my interpretation, btw), and they if they want to make it
public, they will.
Alexander.
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