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# Change \_VERSION global to "Luau"
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> Note: this RFC was adapted from an internal proposal that predates RFC process
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## Summary
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Change \_VERSION global to "Luau" to differentiate Luau from Lua
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## Motivation
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Provide an official way to distinguish Luau from Lua implementation.
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## Design
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We inherit the global string \_VERSION from Lua (this is distinct from Roblox `version()` function that returns a full version number such as 0.432.43589).
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The string is set to "Lua 5.1" for us (and "Lua 5.2" etc for newer versions of Lua.
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Since our implementation is sufficiently divergent from upstream, this proposal suggests setting \_VERSION to "Luau".
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