Re: coroutine metatable

["Duncan Cross" <duncan.cross@...>]

On Nov 9, 2007 11:42 AM, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> > Is there a reason why coroutines don't have a metatable similar to
> > strings so that they automatically inherit the coroutine table?
> >
> > Such that you could do:
> >
> > local hi = coroutine.create(function() end);
> > hi:resume()
>
> It does not seem very useful. More often than not we create the
> coroutine with coroutine.wrap, so that we resume it with 'hi()'. To
> yield, there is no coroutine to apply the operation.
>
> -- Roberto
>

How about giving functions a metatable with coroutine.wrap and
string.dump in it?