Re: C-isms: \0 bytes & Lua's stdlib (Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.4 (rc3) now available)

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

2017-01-27 2:57 GMT+02:00 nobody <nobody+lua-list@afra-berlin.de>:
> On 2017-01-25 05:54, nobody wrote:

> So I started to go through all functions on the Lua side... got bored in
> the packackge & io library and then put it aside.  I initially started
> with 5.3.3 some time ago, now checked the diffs & some functions from
> each category so it should be up-to-date with 5.3.4-rc3 (but I'm not
> 100% certain).

I'm not much of a C person (less than 50000 lines of code ever written,
I guess) so this may be a stupid question.

Does C99 (which quietly but Makefile-ly has become the standard for
Lua 5.3 source) offer string function improvements that could be useful
for avoiding these C-isms?