Re: new thought experiment: what would you add to Lua ?

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Frank Kastenholz once stated:
> 
> os.setenv, as a counterpart to os.getenv?

  setenv() is not a standard C function (it is in POSIX).  Lua only uses
standard C functions, thus its ommission.

  One oddly lacking function is localeconv().  We have os.setlocale() but
not os.localeconv().  

> I also like the idea of a switch statement (maybe taking bash’s notion of
> patterns in the cases :-)

  You could always use a table for this.

> But none really are critical (to me)

  Same here.

  -spc