Re: Luerl

[Henning Diedrich <hd2010@...>]

On 2/23/12 2:27 AM, Miles Bader wrote:

Jay Carlson <nop@nop.com> writes:

One example of this is utf8 validity. assert_utf8(s) really wants to
privately decorate s with s::utf8.is_valid. As it happens there are
some reserved bits left in Lua string internals so this is one of
those rare cases of a cooperative v(ictim).

... except that "is valid utf8" is probably not a sufficiently important
or useful concept to warrant using rare reserved bits for...

-miles

I find this bifurcating, the only way to figure the intent of the poster,
(ironic | serious) is by looking up the history of his postings.

Of course one should think for oneself. But there is no way to
"follow" the conversation here sometimes ...

H*