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- Subject: Re: Missing information in the Lua 5.1 reference manual?
- From: Ivan Kolev <ikolev@...>
- Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 09:12:04 +0300
Yes, "__tostring" is not a core metamethod; it's only a protocol following
by print (and potentially any other functions that want to).
Makes sense. Though a couple of times when I've returned to Lua I wondered "hey, it would be nice to have a __print metamethod" while browsing 2.8. The second time a vague thought followed "hey, but wasn't that already present?" so I searched for tostring and found it. Now I won't forget any more :)
> 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?
No, *I* was missing something. Thank you. You might consider adding a list of all metamethods to the index, including __tostring and __metatable under a "special fields" label.
Regards,
Ivan
