Re: String confusion

[Craig Barnes <craigbarnes85@...>]

On 28 September 2012 14:19, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
<lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> Unless I'm mistaken, using the length operator (#) on a string just calls
>> string.len() via metamethod
>
> No, there is a VM instruction for the length operator.
> Search for OP_LEN in
>         http://www.lua.org/source/5.1/lvm.c.html#luaV_execute
>         http://www.lua.org/source/5.2/lvm.c.html#luaV_execute
>

Oops, my mistake. That's what I get for not checking things before I post.