> If I understand correctly, I think this is a misdesign of the Lua > standard intepreter. It should not be mapping command line argument > words to Lua arguments precisely because there is an arbitrary (and > relatively low) limit on chunk args. Instead, lua should assemble the > command line arguments into a Lua list, and pass that list to the script > chunk as a single argument. Since Lua list length is virtually > unlimited, there will be no such issue with command line length.
Lua standalone does both. In my opinion, it's not unreasonable to treat command-line arguments as chunk arguments, and this semantics is clearly stated in Section 6 of the reference manual. Reasonable people could differ about whether this is a good semantics, but I hope we can agree that a Lua script should be capable of accepting as many command-line arguments as the operating system cares to provide. Norman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
