Re: String represents arrays of characters.

[Tim Mensch <tim-lua-l@...>]

Funny, but I found myself wanting to type exactly that not an hour ago.
I remembered that it wasn't the "Lua way," though, and stopped myself in
time.

Would be nice if it worked, though.

Tim

On 12/13/2010 1:44 PM, Dirk Laurie wrote:

> The title of this post is a quote from the Lua Reference Manual,
> Section 2.2 in Lua 5.1, Section 2.1 in Lua 5.2.  Stare at it
> again.
> 
>     String represents arrays of characters.
> 
> In the light of that statement, one can't be blamed for expecting
> that s[i] means the i-th character of a string.  At present, s[i]
> is nil, even if i is in the range 1 to #s -- another gotcha.
> 
> In some previous threads, various ways to achieve this in Lua were 
> suggested.  I was flamed for "writing a dialect" and failing to
> think in Lua instead of Pascal.. 
> 
> But really, if Roberto himself says "String represents arrays of 
> characters" then it can't be un-Lua-like to wish to write s[i].
> And who knows?  It may yet sneak into a future Lua ...
> 
> Dirk
>