Re: Feature request: plain option for gsub

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

2014-08-22 23:31 GMT+02:00 Sean Conner <sean@conman.org>:
>> F#ck it, let's just tear out the spaghetti 500 lines of C for patterns and
>> hoist in LPeg.  It's a better hammer anyway :-)))
>
>   I know Roberto has been thinking along those lines.

And was daunted [1] by the length of the LPeg code in relation
to all of the present standard library put together.

[1] http://www.lua.org/wshop12/Ierusalimschy.pdf