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- Subject: Re: Question about io.open modes
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:16:25 -0300
> ANSI C90 accepts both "w+b" and "wb+" I think; I don't have a final
> copy but the draft3 available online does call out those two
> alternatives. C99 does as well.
You are right; my mistake. Anyway, it states that the behavior is
undefined for any string not explicitly allowed. For Lua, it is simpler
to check only for the "w+b" style, and it does not seem to be any "loss
of generality" in that restriction.
-- Roberto