From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/87609 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Ctx & Lua 5.3 Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 13:47:59 +0200 Message-ID: <5385CCEF.7070907@wxs.nl> References: <537F2DC7.2040708@wxs.nl> <537F360B.1010407@wxs.nl> <537F58B9.3070005@gmx.net> <53821B77.6030101@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1401277702 9635 80.91.229.3 (28 May 2014 11:48:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 11:48:22 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed May 28 13:48:16 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([5.39.185.229]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WpcL8-0000gA-NU for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 May 2014 13:48:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32F9410275 for ; Wed, 28 May 2014 13:48:12 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id FRcz1BTQMK7E for ; Wed, 28 May 2014 13:48:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF3DC10228 for ; Wed, 28 May 2014 13:48:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B347D101E6 for ; Wed, 28 May 2014 13:48:03 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Xq7JMQ4o2wQ7 for ; Wed, 28 May 2014 13:48:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter3-ams.mf.surf.net (filter3-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.71]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25FB5101E2 for ; Wed, 28 May 2014 13:48:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter3-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id s4SBm1Z9006632 for ; Wed, 28 May 2014 13:48:01 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.103; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.103] (unverified [10.100.1.103]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 6.5a2) with ESMTP id 4081-1713362 for ; Wed, 28 May 2014 13:47:59 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 In-Reply-To: X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: ntg-context@ntg.nl, base:default, @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=Provincie Overijssel; city=Zwolle; latitude=52.5058; longitude=6.0858; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.5058,6.0858&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 03M7nM1tO - 6d2f25d654ed - 20140528 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.71 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:87609 Archived-At: On 5/28/2014 11:26 AM, Proch=E1zka Luk=E1=B9 Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, 25 May 2014 18:33:59 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > >> On 5/25/2014 1:33 PM, Luk=E1=B9 Proch=E1zka wrote: >> >>> - Question: when is Ctx supposed to adopt Lua 5.3? >> >> It will take a while as >> >> - 5.3 it's not yet official >> - then 5.3 needs to become stable >> - we need to test implications of the new number system >> - tests have shows it's a slightly slower >> >> Maybe there's nothing to gain from a move to 5.3, apart from keeping up >> with general Lua. If we make the switch it will first be tested quite a >> while in production before it leaves beta. > > OK. > > Did you think about Ctx be able to use more Lua versions? > > Similar like "--jit" forces LuaJIT instead of Lua; > "--lua52" would force Lua 5.2 instead Lua 5.3+ once Lua 5.3+ is adopted > into Ctx core (and supposing Ctx won't use any Lua 5.3+ extras). unlikely ... i can think of more interesting things to do than spending = the free time i've left to coding for multiple lua dialects, so if we = move to 5.3 and i want to use its new features, 5.2 is no longer assumed = and supported (one thing i can think of is bitwise operators) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________= ________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to t= he Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-cont= ext webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________= ________