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Re: Upcoming changes in Lua 5.4

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Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great Paige DePol once stated:
>> Soni They/Them L. <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> The main difference between Lua 5.3 and "Lua 5.4" is that Lua 5.3 does TCO
>>> of varargs, I think. This isn't (yet) possible with "Lua 5.4" (but it'd be
>>> nice if it was).
>> 
>> What do you mean by TCO? Also why quote "Lua 5.4" like that, the GitHub
>> source code identifies itself as Lua 5.4 now.
> 
> Tail call optimization---basically a form of GOTO. 
Ahh, of course... no idea how I missed that when searching!
Thanks for the clarification! :)
~Paige

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