Re: GSoC 2010 Project Ideas

[Majic <majic.one@...>]

I *really* wish Lua strings were not byte-by-byte operated-on.....wish
unicode-safe operations were safe in the string "namespace".  Wish
that were a GSoC Lua project...never done GSoC, so I don't know how
it's done. :(  Oh well, hopefully someone else feels similarly?  Lua
is fantastic but does anyone think character arrays cut it?  I think
wchar_t is only big enough to fit the character for the current
locale...  Would sleep safer at night if it at least supported that.
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On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
> Peter Kümmel <syntheticpp@gmx.net> writes:
>> Lua scripting in GDB
>> http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/ProjectIdeas
>>
>> They already have Python support but I like the idea to
>> be able to use Lua. I could add more entries there if
>> someone knows more benefits when using Lua (maybe over Python).
>
> Excellent!
>
> Lua seems like a _much_ better fit than python for something like gdb
> (but I can see why they probably chose python ...."everybody else was
> using it..." :/ ).
>
> -Miles
>
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