So, by maintaining the two operators separate, which is fine, could I redefine .. to something like 'concat'?
That way I would end up having "Hello" concat "World"
It will be far less work and far greater benefit later on when you have to use other people's code for you to just learn Lua. It's not actually that large nor that complex a language and it's pretty consistent as well. Just learn it. There's loads of resources for it, beginning with PiL3.
-- "Perhaps people don't believe this, but throughout all of the discussions of entering China our focus has really been what's best for the Chinese people. It's not been about our revenue or profit or whatnot."
--Sergey Brin, demonstrating the emptiness of the "don't be evil" mantra.
