Re: Most awesome string metatable hack

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 4:53 AM, Roberto Ierusalimschy
<roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> 1. In mathematics, function composition is right-associative.
>
> In mathematics, function composition is associative, so it is mostly
> a detail whether it is implemented as right- or left-associative;
> the final result is the same.
>
> -- Roberto
>

The mathematical notation (f o g)(x) specifically means f(g(x)),
however, and function composition isn't commutative. Since the concat
hack should reproduce this behavior to be consistent with standard
notation, the conclusion is correct even though the supporting premise
was off-topic.

/s/ Adam