Re: any benefit to throwing off lua51 constraints?

  • From: Coda Highland <chighland@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:15:43 -0700

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:09 AM, William Adams <william_a_adams@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Rant, or 'future features' :-)  It's just a matter of perspective I think.
>
> I'm not personally constrained by any implied Lua oversight committee.  I'm 
> just a developer trying to crack a nut.
>
> LuaJIT came along with FFI, and I've been happily making my code 
> non-compliant ever since.  LuaJIT is in FACT a new language variant.

luaffi is EXTREMELY close to being API-compatible with LuaJIT FFI
(IIRC the only difference is in null/nil handling), so even that's not
fatal.

/s/ Adam

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