Re: Calling overloaded original functions

[Geoff Leyland <geoff_leyland@...>]

On 9/05/2008, at 8:31 AM, Till Harbaum / Lists wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> i am trying to extend the tostring function to do something special
> for my own special use tables. I found some example using the syntax
> below:
>
> function tostring(a)
>   -- do something for special tables ...
>   -- otherwise call original function:
>   return %tostring(a)
> end

Can't you do this?  I don't know about the %.

local std_tostring = tostring

function tostring(a)
  -- do something for special tables ...
  -- otherwise call original function:
  return std_tostring(a)
end

Cheers,
Geoff