Re: BASIC-like Lua variant

[Joe Eaves <jinux@...>]

On 14 Jan 2014, at 13:48, Choonster TheMage wrote:

>> 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"
>> 
>> 
> 
> Not unless you use a modified version of Lua or a source-to-source
> converter. Lua lets you overload the functionality of existing
> operators, but you can't create your own aliases for them.
> 

If you're already looking at words instead of symbols however, there's nothing stopping you just writing a small function for it.

function cc(x, y)
    return x .. y
end

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