Re: 5.2 feature list?

[Andreas Stenius <kaos@...>]

Sam Roberts skrev:
[...]
> So, calling lua_tostring() on a value that had a __tostring metamethod
> would remove it from the stack, replacing it with a string. Some people
> already don't like auto-coercions between number and string, can you
> imagine the trouble it would cause to have your user-data auto-coerced
> to strings? :-(

This is not a problem. The only place the user-data or other type will 
be replaced with a string is in the stack where the string.format 
routine collects it's arguments. The original value will remain the 
same, at another safe location in the stack.

//Andreas