Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.3 (rc1) now available
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- Subject: Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.3 (rc1) now available
- From: Duane Leslie <parakleta@...>
- Date: 2016年5月13日 07:35:33 +1000
> Are you serious about the documentation?
You know, I completely missed the semicolons every other time that I read that sentence. I retract my complaint about that part of the documentation, sorry.
I still maintain that the (undocumented) change in 5.3.2 that broke the invariant `fmt:unpack(fmt:pack(value)) == value` and the fact that unpack cannot ignore the padding bytes it silently inserted when later unpacking "cn" is a valid problem however.
In other binary serialisation methods there is sometimes a distinction between a string as an array of bytes and a string as a piece of text. I think pack/unpack should make that distinction using the "cn" and "z[n]" formats which would provide a way to access the behaviour added in 5.3.2 but still maintain the invariant.
Why was the change even introduced in 5.3.2?
Regards,
Duane.