Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (work4) now available

[Matthew Wild <mwild1@...>]

2010/8/2 Michal Kolodziejczyk <miko@wp.pl>:
> On 31.07.2010 23:08, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
>
>> See also http://www.lua.org/work/doc/
>>
>> The manual has been updated but is still incomplete.
>
> 3.4.6 - The Length Operator
>
> "A program can modify the behavior of the length operator for any value
> but strings through metamethods" - shouldn't that read "but string and
> numbers"?

$ lua5.2
Lua 5.2.0 (work4)  Copyright (C) 1994-2010 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> require"debug".setmetatable(1, { __len = function (n) return math.random(n) end })
true
> return #5
2
> return #5
4
> return #5
4
> return #5
5
> return #5
1
>

:)

Matthew