Re: number, math, and metatable?

["Thomas Jericke" <tjericke@...>]

-----Original Message----- 
> From: "Dirk Laurie" <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> 
> To: "Lua mailing list" <lua-l@lists.lua.org> 
> Date: 03-05-2014 08:13 
> Subject: Re: number, math, and metatable? 
> 
> 2014-05-03 0:55 GMT+02:00 Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@gmail.com>:
> 
> > http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2006-03/msg00691.html
> >
> > What about having the math library as the default metatable for number?
> 
> I asked my two old friends Pro and Con to discuss it over a beer.
>

But your Pro should learn to make examples that help his case, your Con
already makes examples that work for his case. Here a nice Pro example:

local limtied = max(min(input, 1000), 100))
->
local limtied = input : min(1000) : max(100)

Well it is still confusing that the lower limit goes into max
and the upper into min, but you can't solve all problems at once.

Or with colon patch:
local sin, cos = math.sin, math.cos 
local x,y = cos(60 : rad), sin(60 : rad) 
-- Maybe confusing because you write what you want and not what you provide.

print('Angle=' .. math.atan2(y, x) : deg .. '°')

I am not so sure, if I would use it that often actually.
--
Thomas