Re: How is string passed from Lua to C

[Patrick Rapin <toupie300@...>]

> Right but lua_tostring returns const char* so any attempt to modify the
> string should be caught by the compiler.

Yes, but it is way too easy to cast the result into (char*), in order
to fix the compilation error...
So the programmer has to understand that it is really forbidden to
modify that string.