Re: metamethods for assignment and type conversion

[Adrien de Croy <adrien@...>]

so all assignments are done by incrementing a reference count and 
referring to the rvalue instead of copying it?

If that's done in one place, it could be an opportunity for a metamethod 
call.

Jerome Vuarand wrote:
> Adrien de Croy wrote:
>   
> > but it doesn't really make that much sense that lua exposes all the
> > other operators except assignment. 
> >     
>
> It does make sense if you consider the fact that assignment in Lua are
> not expressions (contrary to C and many languages using C syntax). *All*
> operators used in expressions are exposed.
>   

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