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Lua 5.4.0 (beta) freeze planned this week
- dottrap 7y agoContents: Lua 5.4.0 (beta-rc2) remains available for testing at http://www.lua.org/work/ http://www.lua.org/work/ Please take a look before we freeze Lua 5.4.0 (beta), which will happen next week if no glitches are reported. All feedback is welcome. Thanks.
- dottrap 7y agoChanges from Lua 5.3 - new generational mode for garbage collection - to-be-closed variables - const variables - userdata can have multiple user values - new implementation for math.random - warning system - debug information about function arguments and returns - new semantics for the integer 'for' loop - optional 'init' argument to 'string.gmatch' - new functions 'lua_resetthread' and 'coroutine.close' - coersions string-to-number moved to the string library - allocation function allowed to fail when shrinking a memory block - new format '%p' in 'string.format' - utf8 library accepts codepoints up to 2^31 Prior HN discussion on Lua 5.4.0 (beta): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21145676 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21145676