rawtostring()

["Adam D. Moss" <adam@...>]

Hello,

I'd like to request that a rawtostring() function be included in
a future version of Lua.  Otherwise my root object's default
tostring method looks something like this : :)

local function base_TOSTRING(self)
   local old_tostring;
   old_tostring = getmetatable(self).__tostring;
   getmetatable(self).__tostring = nil;
   local rtn = "Object("..tostring(self)..")";
   getmetatable(self).__tostring = old_tostring;
   return rtn;
end

I'd be willing to create and submit a patch if it's something
that the Lua authors agree with.

--Adam
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