Re: string.gsub (Lua 5.1.1)

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> The truth in this case is that we do not know what is wrong, the code
> or the manual. We did not notice that the option of no replacement
> (introduced in 5.1) allowed the number of matches to be different from
> the number of replacements, until Shmuel's message.

I guessed that was the case.

> In this particular case, it seems simpler to declare the code right and
> correct the manual. We have to clarify the manual anyway.

Does that mean the current behavior of string.gsub will stay unchanged 
in all future sub-versions of Lua 5.1? (This question is not out of 
curiosity: we have rex.gsub function which claims to be API-compatible 
with string.gsub of Lua 5.1).

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Shmuel