Re: Lua 5.1.1 and the __concat metamethod

["Paul.Winwood" <paul.winwood@...>]

> I would say it is a bug (even because other metamethods do not do
> this "preconversion"). Just for curiosity, why does your code care
> about this difference?

Consider a spreadsheet or table-type control. In it numeric cells are 
displayed right aligned, strings and other objects are by default left 
aligned. So I need to know the type of the object to work out a default 
alignment of the text in the cell. However if a number is converted to a 
string first then this information is lost.

--Paul.