Re: Lua 5.2 Reference Manual

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 04/09/2011 18.31, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> Since a C "char" is not a Lua "character", consider using
> "byte" instead of "character" at the following places:
>
> under Lexical Conventions, in "a character in a literal string"
> under lua_pushfstring
> under lua_tolstring
> under luaL_addchar
> under String Manipulation, first paragraph (twice)
> under string.byte
> under string.char
> under file:read()   (twice)
>
> Also, under string.char, consider changing the last sentence to:
> "Note that the characters corresponding to numerical codes are
> not necessarily portable across platforms. "
>
> Dirk
IIRC C standard doesn't guarantee that a char is the same size of a 
byte, although that's almost ubiquitous. So a "char" could be not a 
"byte" on some exotic platforms.

So, e.g., in luaL_addchar saying:

"Adds the byte c to the buffer..." would be plainly wrong in those 
exotic cases.

-- Lorenzo