Re: New Lua port announced

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> First, the syntax is really friendly, the function's set is very
> rich (may be, adding directory reading utilities to iolib?)

Unfortunately, directory manipulation functions are not part of the ANSI
standard, so such functions are not present in iolib (that's the price
of being "a *very* portable software" :-)  In very short time there will
be available a small POSIX library, that will include all these typical
UNIX functions not present in ANSI C (directory manipulation, file access
information, user id's, etc). For more information, please contact
terra@lmf-di.puc-rio.br (he was supposed to have finished this library
some months ago...).

-- Roberto