On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Alexander Gladysh
<agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
> That seems like a valid error message - LuaJIT is more strict. Better
> to throw up your hands than continue to be wrong!
It does, it seemed to be The Right Thing (tm). If you disagree, look at function unesc_letter() in lexer.lua, and replace "return t[x] or error 'blah blah blah'" with "return t[x] or x" :)
I believe it's The Right Thing because when such a thing happens:
- either the writer mistakenly thought that the character was special, and it's helpful to inform him that it isn't;
- or he did a typo, e.g. he wrote "\y" instead of "\t", and that's a nasty bug which you'd better pinpoint for him.
In any case, a piece of code is always better off without faulty escape sequences.
