Re: Feature proposal: \x## notation in strings

[Asko Kauppi <askok@...>]

Are you aware of the patches at: http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaPowerPatches 
 ?

Particularily the "Literals (hex, UTF-8) patch"

"Allows \x00..\xFFFF (hex) and \u0000..\uFFFF (UTF-8 encoded)  
characters within strings."

Making patches is the preferred way of requesting features to Lua.  
Though it (almost) never works. :)

- asko



Ico kirjoitti 10.3.2009 kello 11:14:

> * On 2009-03-10 Enrico Colombini <erix@erix.it> wrote  :
>
> > Eike Decker wrote:
> > > A Lua function that converts strings in a more convenient way is
> > > possible, but I think it would be nice if the compiler would support
> > > this natively.
> >
> > Being a minimalist, I usually prefer extra features to be kept as  
> > libraries.
> > But for hex constants embedded in strings I'd make an exception: I  
> > think
> > they're just too useful (in many fields) to be left out of the core.
>
> So it seems that I'm not alone when I feel this would make an useful
> addition to the lua language. What would be the proper way to make  
> this
> into an official request  ?
>
>
> --
> :wq
> ^X^Cy^K^X^C^C^C^C