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sparr

It would be very handy if the built in tostr() was able to call the __tostring() metamethod for tables that have it defined. This is easy enough to add in our own code, but feels like it should be default behavior, similar to normal Lua.

P#72548 2020-01-31 23:21


dredds
dredds

Yes please!

P#72552 2020-02-01 00:00

sparr
sparr
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local _tostr=tostr
local function tostr(n,...)
 if(type(n)=="table" and getmetatable(n) and getmetatable(n).__tostring)return getmetatable(n).__tostring(n,...)
 return _tostr(n,...)
end
P#72593 2020-02-02 02:57

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