Re: Feature request: plain option for gsub

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

2014-08-22 6:42 GMT+02:00 Tom N Harris <telliamed@whoopdedo.org>:

> Although it is well established that a plain option to gsub is not strictly
> necessary, I don't think I've heard a compelling reason not to have it.
>
> Pro: Avoid the overhead of pattern matching. Will be backward-compatible.
>
> Con: Adds to code maintenance. Can be trivially emulated. May only be modestly
> faster than find/sub.

Another con is that it would be a fifth parameter, preceded by one that
is usually nil. No standard library routine in Lua 5.2 has that many
non-vararg parameters.