Re: io:lines() and \0

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 8:12 PM, René Rebe <rene@exactcode.de> wrote:
> I think that case is covered, but there is indeed a bug: it returns garbage
> if there is no newline at the end of the file. So non-C99 platforms would
> only be supported with the getc loop, ... :-/

Important point, really - Lua source is C89 'plus'.  Main constraint
is the Microsoft compiler, which refuses to implement C99 properly
since MS thinks like a C++ zealot and can't understand why C people
don't just ... give up and use the language of the future.