Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (rc4) now available
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- Subject: Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (rc4) now available
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 09:44:12 -0200
> One remark; as LUA_COMPAT_ALL has been deprecated, in favour of
> version specific ones, would it be possible to break the build when it
> has been defined? Maybe a silly idea, but it would safeguard someone
> from expecting compatibility and not getting it.
I think you are kind of glorifing LUA_COMPAT_ALL. LUA_COMPAT_ALL never
meant "keep full compatibility with previous versions". It meant keep
some compatibility with the immediate previous version where possible,
for a loose interpretation of "possible". To expect compatibility just
because this macro is defined is (and has always been) unwise.
-- Roberto