Re: [ANN] An extended Lua FAQ

[Colin <colin.hch@...>]

Without wanting to contest the idea of a dedicated string
concatenation operator, the explanation

"Overloading '+' to mean string concatenation is a long tradition,
although not very mathematically sound. [...]"

seems rather strange to me: The set of strings over an alphabet, with
concatenation as addition, and the empty string as neutral element,
forms an algebraical structure, a monoid, that is quite mathematically
sound, used frequently in theoretical computer science, and surely not
unknown to mathematicians.


In general, the slightly more 'chatty' style of the FAQ seems a very
good complement to the more 'direct' style of the reference manual,
definitely a good idea.

Colin