Re: upcoming changes in Lua 5.2 [was Re: Location of a package]

[Hans Hagen <pragma@...>]

steve donovan wrote:
> Hm, -1 for this suggestion. The standard Lua pattern matching is good
> enough for most things, and it's easy to grab the lpeg extension and
> just use it ;)
>
> I'm not prejudiced against lpeg, haven't _really_ tried it out to be
> honest, but it would make Lua significantly fatter.

well, when using lua embedded in an app one can leave lpeg out then

anyhow, lpeg is a rather substantial feature and adds much to the power 
of lua and it's not that fat (at least the code looks incredibly 
efficient, way less than any regexp library)

Hans

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