Re: Lua 5.3 changes to .__eq

[Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>]

> On Jul 12, 2015, at 7:03 AM, Peter Aronoff <telemachus@arpinum.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> The reason the difference matters to me is that someone who writes a random or
> otherwise noncommutative method is (definitely) doing it to themselves. But at
> least in previous versions of Lua, the language required basic safeguards by
> requiring that both operands "share the same metamethod".[1]
> 
> Thanks, Peter
> 

You can of course simulate this behavior from the metamethod.

—Tim