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- Subject: Re: Lua 5.1.1 and the __concat metamethod
- From: "Paul.Winwood" <paul.winwood@...>
- Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:22:31 +0000
> I would say it is a bug (even because other metamethods do not do
> this "preconversion"). Just for curiosity, why does your code care
> about this difference?
Consider a spreadsheet or table-type control. In it numeric cells are
displayed right aligned, strings and other objects are by default left
aligned. So I need to know the type of the object to work out a default
alignment of the text in the cell. However if a number is converted to a
string first then this information is lost.
--Paul.