Re: Nil and false in Lua design

[Carsten Fuchs <carsten.fuchs@...>]

Am 14.10.2013 10:32, schrieb steve donovan:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Thomas Jericke <tjericke@indel.ch> wrote:
> > I think it could be a to high performance hit to have a metamethod lookup on
> > each and every condition or logical expression of a program.
>
> True, plus making programs even more confusing...

Well, a __tobool metamethod would just be a typecast, like __tostring.

I'm certainly not feverish about this, but for consistency's sake, I 
think it would be nice to have either -- or none.   ;-)

Best regards,
Carsten



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