Re: Web development with Lua

[Tang Daogang <daogangtang@...>]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@gmx.net> wrote:

On 18.10.2011 05:53, Tang Daogang wrote:

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Norbert Kiesel<nkiesel@tbdnetworks.com>wrote:

;) I am sorry, Bamboo relies on lglib (https://github.com/daogangtang/lglib),
in which I override the __add method with ..

Not a good idea if your strings look like numbers:

$ cat > adds.lua
local mt = getmetatable( "" )
mt.__add = function( a, b )
 return a .. b
end
print( "1" + "2" )
^D

$ lua adds.lua
3

Lua tries to convert arguments of '+' to numbers and apply numeric addition *before* metamethods are involved.

That is true. I think this is lua's flaw, thanks for your mention, let me think how to treat this case.
 

Philipp

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