On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 4:33 AM, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: >> Looks to me as if Lua doesn't have integers at all > > They fixed that in Lua 5.3: > > http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/readme.html#changes
That's 64-bit integers, not arbitrary-precision, but that's something at least. You do still need to worry about what happens when your numbers get too big; in Python, you simply don't. So it's still not quite there in terms of functionality. >> Likewise, eight-bit strings, not Unicode. > > Also fixed in 5.3 (basic utf-8 support added, per above). This is definitely NOT what I'm talking about. From what I can see, 5.3 introduces a new library for working with strings of bytes as if they were UTF-8. That's on par with PHP's Unicode support - basically, nothing that isn't explicitly coded. It makes Unicode something that you tack on with resignation, rather than something that's just an automatic part of text handling. So, a long way from being there in functionality. Do you see what I mean about functionality being sacrificed for security? There is no way that this could be called fully functional by comparison with Python. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
