Implement strings

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions

@@ -207,9 +207,16 @@ function m.list (items, final)
         return tolist(final or m.null, items)
 end
 
--- strings are vectors of chars
+-- strings are vectors of chars.  not lam characters, but one-character strings.
+-- this is for utf8 ease-of-use... TODO i still need to write functions to pluck
+-- out a single lam character from a string, etc.
 function m.string (x)
-        local t = tochars(tostring(x))
+        local t
+        if m.luatype(x) == "table" then
+                t = x
+        else
+                t = tochars(tostring(x))
+        end
         local mt = {
                 __type = "string",
                 __tostring =