From ff222d305ecc5625a68e5b61d6f03f6201676dd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Case Duckworth
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 22:48:12 -0500
Subject: Implement strings

---
 type.lua | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'type.lua')

diff --git a/type.lua b/type.lua
index c205468..0000bfb 100644
--- a/type.lua
+++ b/type.lua
@@ -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 =
-- 
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