Re: A tricky way to determine Lua version

Subject: Re: A tricky way to determine Lua version
From: Satoru Kawahara &lt;s1311350@<a href="/index.cgi/speech/http://lua-users.org/cgi-bin/echo.cgi?coins.tsukuba.ac.jp">... &gt;
Date: 2016年5月21日 16:23:31 +0900

How about?

local version = setmetatable({nil, [1] = "LuaJIT"}, {__index = {"Lua 5." .. string.dump(function()end):byte(5, 5) % 16}})[1]

On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov <lua-l@mva.name> wrote:

> Mine relies upon strings still having a metatable.
But lacks luajit ;)

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wbr,
mva

Kawahara Satoru

College of Information Science

University of Tsukuba

References:
- A tricky way to determine Lua version, Egor Skriptunoff
- Re: A tricky way to determine Lua version, Sean Conner
- Re: A tricky way to determine Lua version, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov