Re: Ternary operator patch

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Henk Boom <henk@henk.ca> wrote:
>> Are there any gotchas with the new method that are likely to arise in
>> practice?
>
> Off the top of my head:
>
> foo(bar)
> ("string literal"):baz()
>
> Could be useful in either interpretation (assuming you've given the
> string's metatable something useful to call as a statement)

Hmm, could happen with other metatables too, which is perhaps a bit
more dangerous...

E.g., if X and Y are vectors (like in graphics);

   X = compute_x ()
   Y = compute_y ()
   (X-Y):lineto ()

Boom!
Hmm, that actually does seem like a problem ...

-Miles

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