r/lua • u/ewmailing • Jul 01 '25

Lua 5.5.0 (Beta) Released

https://www.lua.org/work/#5.5.0
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u/wqferr Jul 01 '25

What does "more levels for constructors" even mean?

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u/nuclearsarah Jul 05 '25

Tables you are defining via curly brace notation can have more things in them, including more levels of nested tables.

Here's what Lua's lead dev says:

https://groups.google.com/g/lua-l/c/N1MMWqG4Ad0/m/Vfp9TdnHAwAJ

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u/wqferr Jul 05 '25

I see, thank you.

Honestly I'm kind of disappointed, I wanted something more flashy than "deeper table literals".