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2017-07-04 1:31 GMT+02:00 Charles Heywood <vandor2012@gmail.com>:

> I personally feel that while it is nice, it'll lead to ambiguousness.

If that is a problem, how about:

debug.setmetatable(0,{__index=math})

print(math.exp(1):cosh())

or even

print((1):exp():cosh())

> On Mon, Jul 3, 2017, 18:29 Etiene Dalcol <dalcol@etiene.net> wrote:
>>
>> It looks very functional. I like it.
>> If it's not costy, it would be an incredible addition!
>>
>> 2017-07-03 23:44 GMT+01:00 Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
>> <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>:
>>>
>>> > math.exp( 1 )->cosh()->round( 7 )
>>>
>>> You can almost do that right now:
>>>
>>> debug.setmetatable(0,{
>>>         __bor = function (x,y) return y(x) end
>>> })
>>>
>>> print(math.exp(1) | math.cosh)