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It was thus said that the Great Dirk Laurie once stated:
> 
> For the umpteenth time I wonder whether I am the only Lua programmer
> that has ever wished that 'tostring' had an optional second parameter
> allowing one to bypass the __tostring metametod.

  For the record, I have not once wished that.

  Why not a rawtostring() function instead?  Why overload tostring()?

  -spc