Re: share a stupid typo bug of me :(

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2012/11/3 Egor Skriptunoff <egor.skriptunoff@gmail.com>:
> On 11/3/12, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> string.part=string.sub
>>> string.grepl=string.gsub
>>> string.sub=nil
>>> string.gsub=nil
>>> print((("How hard is that?"):grepl("hard","easy")))
>> How easy is that?
>
> Dirk, it is OK until you have to share your sources with others.
> Do you really wanna Babel in Lua community?   :-)

I don't think it's Babel if you put a few lines in standard Lua
in plain view at the top of your code.  Personally I only do this:

string.append = string.insert

without nilling insert, but I can see that part and grepl amount
to exactly the same thing, so I will not blame anybody who defines
those names and uses them consistently.

> The benefits of language standardization should not be underestimated.
>

The standard library is only a library.

But yes, language standardization is precisely the reason why
the names sub and gsub should not be changed.