Re: Lua 5.1 has a serious issue
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- Subject: Re: Lua 5.1 has a serious issue
- From: Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@...>
- Date: 2006年1月12日 17:11:34 +0000
On Thu, 2006年01月12日 at 15:06 -0200, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > there is still the question of the orthogonality and ability to
> > implement __len on pure-lua objects.
> As a general rule, Lua does not allow the redefinition of operators for
> cases already defined in the language (e.g., add for numbers, concat for
> strings, call for functions).
Right. This is quite fair.
> (On the other hand, we do understand that tables may have a different
> status, as they are used to represent "all other types" in Lua.)
Does this mean you'll consider adding __len lookups for tables before
release?
(Please say 'yes' :-)
D.
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