Re: [Feature Request?] __key

["Soni L." <fakedme@...>]

On 17/07/16 05:05 AM, Sean Conner wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great Tim Hill once stated:
>
> > I’m not being obtuse here, I just don’t see the bang for the buck.
>    As I present these examples, I'm just not seeing it either, given that a
> module that wants the behavior of '__key' can just return interned values.

That works fine until you want your DB's "decimal" with value 10 to 
access a Lua table as if it was the Lua integer 10. No amount of 
interning can do that. But __key can.
>    -spc (__key is hard!  Let's make rockets!)

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