Re: Lua patterns

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Dirk Laurie once stated:
> 
> 2. Presumably what will be delivered is a C module that can be
> required as "clex", returning a table that one can install as
> a drop-in replacement for "string" by
>      getmetatable"".__index = clex
> after which traditional 'string' is still available explicitly but not
> via object-style syntax.

  I'd be happy with Lua code that did this.  Even slow, it could still be
tested and discussed.

  -spc