Re: What is a Lua string?

[Ryota Hirose <hirose.ryota@...>]

Hello, 1 byte guys,

2010/12/21 David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>

Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@gmail.com> writes:

> http://www.lua.org/source/5.1/lstring.c.html
>
> Lua strings are technically an array (or sequence) of (char)s,

And nowadays, a char is only roughly similar to a character.

Please distinguish between the type 'char' of C language and a character.  Many languages (for a human, not for a computer) in the world have more than thousand characters, so the type 'char' cannot carry a character, in usual.

Ryota Hirose