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Update to lua 5.1? #7

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bluddy opened this issue May 24, 2022 · 1 comment
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Update to lua 5.1? #7

bluddy opened this issue May 24, 2022 · 1 comment

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bluddy commented May 24, 2022

It's amazing that this project even exists, but the most relevant version of lua appears to be 5.1. Any chance of supporting it?

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Please note that Lua-ML is not a set of bindings for the PUC-Rio Lua (the one available from lua.org), it's an alternative implementation based on very different ideas.

Of course I'd like it to implement modern Lua, but it's a matter of reimplementing those language features rather than "just" replacing the Lua interpreter (though upgrading bindings to newer interpreter versions isn't trivial either, but that's beside the point).

There are also many other reasons to radically rework the internals, in particular, the parser and runtime error reporting.

So yes, eventually I'd like to get there, but it's a lot of work. If you want to help with it, that would be nice.

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