Re: A bug in string.gmatch and string.gsub?

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

2013/4/29 Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br>:

> I may be wrong, but it seems that the two rules can be stated like that:
>
> 1) Do not match two empty strings in the same position. (current Lua rule)
>
> 2) Do not match an empty string in the same position of another match
> (not necessarily empty). (sed rule)
>
> Is rule 2 really more intuitive in general or it just happen to do what
> you want in this particular case?

It has the advantage of making `split` trivial instead of requiring the
sort of thing that takes the Lua Wiki 300 lines to explain.