Anonymous
6/30/2025, 5:40:19 PM No.105755205
Lua 5.5 beta was released!
source: https://www.lua.org/work/lua-5.5.0-beta.tar.gz
documentation: https://www.lua.org/work/doc
Changes:
>declarations for global variables
>for-loop variables are read only
>floats are printed in decimal with enough digits to be read back correctly.
>more levels for constructors
>table.create
>utf8.offset returns also final position of character
>external strings (that use memory not managed by Lua)
>new functions luaL_openselectedlibs and luaL_makeseed
>major collections done incrementally
>more compact arrays (large arrays use about 60% less memory)
>lua.c loads 'readline' dynamically
>static (fixed) binaries (when loading a binary chunk in memory, Lua can reuse its original memory in some of the internal structures)
>dump and undump reuse all strings
>auxiliary buffer reuses buffer when it creates final string
What is your favourite new feature? most hated?
source: https://www.lua.org/work/lua-5.5.0-beta.tar.gz
documentation: https://www.lua.org/work/doc
Changes:
>declarations for global variables
>for-loop variables are read only
>floats are printed in decimal with enough digits to be read back correctly.
>more levels for constructors
>table.create
>utf8.offset returns also final position of character
>external strings (that use memory not managed by Lua)
>new functions luaL_openselectedlibs and luaL_makeseed
>major collections done incrementally
>more compact arrays (large arrays use about 60% less memory)
>lua.c loads 'readline' dynamically
>static (fixed) binaries (when loading a binary chunk in memory, Lua can reuse its original memory in some of the internal structures)
>dump and undump reuse all strings
>auxiliary buffer reuses buffer when it creates final string
What is your favourite new feature? most hated?
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