Re: os.setenv()???

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

Rici Lake wrote:
> On 8-Jan-06, at 11:00 AM, Chris Marrin wrote:
>
> > This is all good discussion. But let me say that my original intent 
> > was to say that there are many capabilities that Lua has built in 
> > (file I/O, a few os functions). But this set is incomplete and 
> > therefore other libraries need to be brought in.
>
>
> Leaving aside loadlib, the facilities Lua offers are essentially those 
> guaranteed in standard C (89). So it's not an arbitrary choice, really.

That assumes you believe that C89's library is not arbitrary :-)

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