Re: default metatable

[<temp212@...>]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 08:52:13 +0100
 Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@guerrag.com> wrote:
> On 29 June 2017 at 18:54,  <tobias@justdreams.de> wrote:
> > Quoting temp212@gorodok.net:
> >
> > > Thanks Javier, this would work, but additional letter before table still
> > > looks a little bit ugly to me, although not as ugly as my patch that from
> > > internals gets the default metatable using C api.
> >
> > While it might be conceived as ugly it is also explicit.
>
> right.  remember that it's possible that you'd still want "plain" Lua
> tables in your program.  the factory function can be seen as a "type
> prefix", not too different to the '0x' used before hexadecimal
> numbers.

The idea was not to break or replace anything, just add 
possibility to make arithmetics on equal sized vectors and 
numbers "Mathematica style".
'plain' tables would work as usual, by default there is just 
no arithmetics for tables without metatable.