Re: io:lines() and \0

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

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 9:35 AM, René Rebe <rene@exactcode.de> wrote:
> Why is it you insists so much to refuse to improve a Lua core function to
> return more precisely what the underlying system actually returned?

Because, when will it stop?  We all now that bad implementations and
ambiguities have created broken C run times.  Should Lua compensate
for all of them?

(There are exceptions which make sense: e.g. Windows' strftime is so
broken that it will crash when passed formatting options it does not
understand, so 5.2 checks the input)