Re: Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1) not on mainframes ?

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> Is there a good reason why 5.2.0 uses is own "ctype" (ASCII
> apparently) and doesn't relay on standard functions/macros : isalpha,
> isgit ...

We thought EBCDIC was dead :)


> On my "box" an IBM's mainframe using EBCDIC encoding (z/OS v1r9)
> the building of Lua is OK but at execution whatever you input, Lua
> replies:
> 
> stdin:1: unexpected symbol near char(nnn)

Certainly Lua should work there. We will have to fix that. Many thanks
for the feedback. (I see two options: to give up its own ctype or
to fill it dynamically.)

-- Roberto