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November 01, 2005

Lua 5.1 (beta) Released

Posted: 2005-11-01 15:03:00
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Lua 5.1 (beta) has been released. Lua is a dynamically-typed scripting language offering object-oriented capabilities, designed for extending applications.

The changes in this release include: support for string.gsub accepting tables as the replacement, a new lua_setallocf function for changing the allocator function, new table.maxn and debug.getregistry functions, plus more.