Re: UTF-8 patterns in Lua 5.3

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

2014-04-19 16:03 GMT+02:00 Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com>:

> I really love LPeg and use it whenever the string library is irksome.
> But it is much harder to learn (I wrote beginner's notes for it [1], to which
> I find myself still returning occasionally.) and even though Roberto has
> toyed with the idea of putting it in Lua [2] it has made no appearance in
> 5.3 yet.

[1] http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/dlaurie/lua-notes/blob/master/lpeg-brief.html
[2] http://www.lua.org/wshop12/Ierusalimschy.pdf