lua/manual, branch v5.5-beta

Manual updated to version 5.5

2025-06-27T17:46:41+00:00

Check string indices when loading binary chunk

2025-06-17T14:40:49+00:00

Lua is not religious about that, but it tries to avoid crashes when loading binary chunks.

The main thread cannot be closed

2025-06-13T17:08:38+00:00

No thread started with pcall (instead of resume) can be closed, because coroutine.close would not respect the expected number of results from the protected call.

A coroutine can close itself

2025-06-12T14:15:09+00:00

A call to close itself will close all its to-be-closed variables and return to the resume that (re)started the coroutine.

Loading a binary chunk should not break assertions

2025-06-04T15:55:43+00:00

Although the execution of a bad binary chunk can crash the interpreter, simply loading it should be safe.

Proper error message when jumping into 'global *'

2025-05-18T15:03:54+00:00

A goto cannot jump into the scope of any variable declaration, including 'global *'. To report the error, it needs a "name" for the scope it is entering.

Variable attributes can prefix name list

2025-05-18T14:43:43+00:00

In this format, the attribute applies to all names in the list; e.g. "global print, require, math".

Collective declaration for globals ('global *')

2025-05-13T14:43:10+00:00

New syntax 'global function'

2025-05-08T14:08:03+00:00

First implementation of global declarations

2025-05-05T19:24:59+00:00