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- Subject: Re: Proposal: package.(c)path as tables
- From: Russell Haley <russ.haley@...>
- Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 23:40:58 -0700
On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 9:50 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2017-09-07 6:08 GMT+02:00 Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com>:
>
>> I personally think parsing strings is for the birds (and Dirk and Sean
>> apparently.
>
> In most languages, yes, but Lua's pattern system is so convenient and
> its string library is so short an sweet.
Agreed. String manipulation is a feature I often bring up when talking
with other developers about Lua (especially C developers).
Russ
