Re: Lua 5.1 has a serious issue

[Asko Kauppi <askok@...>]

Suggested the latter, to apply to the per-type metatable.  I have  
notified this to the authors already, but no feedback on the  
particular issue.   Basically, we'd need separate "byte size" and  
"length" operators, which by default would be the same.

-asko

Daniel Silverstone kirjoitti 12.1.2006 kello 18.47:

> On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 18:42 +0200, Asko Kauppi wrote:
> > Make that apply to strings as well?
> > As a quick example, would allow UTF-8 strings to be returning the
> > real length (in characters); not the number of bytes.
>
> That would (unless I'm wrong) require strings to carry around  
> metatables
> themselves which is a very big change.
>
> Or did you simply mean check against the string metatable?
>
> D.
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