Re: Table finalizers and other 5.2 features

  • From: Mike Pall <mike-1205@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 10:32:58 +0200

Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
> Wondering if there's a roadmap for backporting/integrating 5.2
> features into LuaJIT 2.0?
>
> Obviously goto is pretty much out. But things like table
> finalisers would potentially be very useful.

Well, I'm currently finishing the roadmap ...

Here's the summary for the Lua 5.2 features to be merged:

LuaJIT 2.0: goto, labels, '%a', '%A', hex float parsing,
io.pipe/os.execute result status, io.lines formats.

LuaJIT 2.1: __gc for tables, anything else that's somewhat useful
(not much left).

--Mike

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