> one of Lua's informal missions is to use every part of ANSI libc and libm. That's not entirely correct. We try to reduce the dependency of Lua's core to a minimum. For a more precise statement, see http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2004-08/msg00092.html For a simple implementation what of the core does need, see http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2004-03/msg00051.html and the rest of that thread. --lhf