Re: Fun (Was: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work2) now available)

[Rena <hyperhacker@...>]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 1:41 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:

$ lua53
Lua 5.3.0 (work2)  Copyright (C) 1994-2014 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> wide = load"return ' '==(...) and '　' or utf8.char(string.byte(...)+0xfee0)"
> (("Lua 5.3 is great!"):gsub("[ -~]",wide))
Ｌｕａ　５．３　ｉｓ　ｇｒｅａｔ！

Now if only the standalone interpreter would strip the leading "> ",

you could just cut-and-paste those two lines into it.

Ah, yes, those leading > are troublesome and I've often wished it'd ignore them.

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