diff --git a/docs/_pages/compatibility.md b/docs/_pages/compatibility.md index e4b5507f..5f55722e 100644 --- a/docs/_pages/compatibility.md +++ b/docs/_pages/compatibility.md @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ Sandboxing challenges are [covered in the dedicated section](sandbox). | `%g` in patterns | ✔️ | | | `\0` in patterns | ✔️ | | | `bit32` library | ✔️ | | +| `string.gsub` is stricter about using `%` on special characters only | ✔️ | | Two things that are important to call out here are various new metamethods for tables and yielding in metamethods. In both cases, there are performance implications to supporting this - our implementation is *very* highly tuned for performance, so any changes that affect the core fundamentals of how Lua works have a price. To support yielding in metamethods we'd need to make the core of the VM more involved, since almost every single "interesting" opcode would need to learn how to be resumable - which also complicates future JIT/AOT story. Metamethods in general are important for extensibility, but very challenging to deal with in implementation, so we err on the side of not supporting any new metamethods unless a strong need arises.