Re: What do you miss most in Lua

[Vaughan McAlley <vaughan@...>]

On 8 February 2012 08:40, Jay Carlson <nop@nop.com> wrote:
>> The main question I suppose is:  is the resulting user code, using
>> mostly ordinary string functions plus a little minimal utf8 tweaking,
>> going to be significantly uglier/harder-to-maintain/confusing, to the
>> point where using a heavier-weight abstraction might be worthwhile?
>>
>> My suspicion is that for most apps, the answer is no...
>
> Well, that certainly makes Roberto happy.

The Lua team would have handled a lot of Portuguese strings by now. If
it gave them issues LHF surely would have written a library by now...

Vaughan