Re: Slicing ideas

[Rob Kendrick <rjek@...>]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 06:57:43PM +0200, Mike Pall wrote:
> Alex Davies wrote:
> > I bet the very thought of that would make Mike break out in hives...
> 
> I guess there's nothing new under the moon. 7.42 years ago I wrote:
> 
>   http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2004-11/msg00083.html
> 
>   Subject: Things not to add to Lua (slices)

The name of the metamethod was throw-away.  The only thing that was
suggested was allowing multiple values inside [], and them be passed to
a metamethod orthagonally.  Different metamethod was only suggested to
maintain backwards compatibility.

B.