Re: io:lines() and \0

[Francisco Olarte <folarte@...>]

Hi:

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> I vote against the proposaI that io.lines() should accept \0 as just
> another data character.
> There may well be programs out there where programmers are
> using the convention that \0 causes the remainder of the line to be
> ignored.

Good point, but AFAIK lua is not so great in backwards compatibility
even for intemded, documented features.

Francisco Olarte.