Re: Lua 5.3 features in the horizon?
- From: Daurnimator <quae@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 13:37:36 -0400
Now that the lua 5.3 beta is out, this is worth revisiting.
Will LuaJIT keep up with 5.3?
What I would want support for (that can't be bolted on with
shims/libraries):
- Moving 64bit ints to not be cdata, but of "number" type
- the new bit operators (<<, >>, etc)
- lexical _ENV
- C API!
Tangentally, are there any extras in LuaJIT not currently in Lua, that
should be added?
e.g. that in luajit, __eq will be called across types.
On 27 March 2014 14:11, Hisham <h@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> It might be too early to ask because the Lua 5.3 cycle is still in
> "work" versions (and as we know things have changed drastically in
> work versions from previous development cycles), but...
>
> 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.
>
> In particular, I wonder if the new 64-bit integers and LuaJIT's 64-bit
> FFI int types could be reconciled in a useful manner.
>
> -- Hisham
>
>
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