Re: Missing information in the Lua 5.1 reference manual?
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- Subject: Re: Missing information in the Lua 5.1 reference manual?
- From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 10:32:23 -0300
> A related question - I've noticed that the "__tostring" metamethod is not
> mentioned in the list of metamethods in 2.8, only in the documentation of
> tostring in 5.1 - is this intentional?
Yes, "__tostring" is not a core metamethod; it's only a protocol following
by print (and potentially any other functions that want to).
> why not include a table of contents [...] And an index of all
> functions of the Lua and C API's
That's what contents.html in the tarball and index.html in the site do.
Or am I missing something?
--lhf