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- Subject: Re: Metatable __index issues
- From: Eric Tetz <erictetz@...>
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:10:29 -0700 (PDT)
--- Mark Hamburg <mhamburg@adobe.com> wrote:
> The only way to do that in Lua seems to be to use a proxy table
> but that means that every persistent table is now two tables.
Oh, it means more than that. ;) The proxy has limitations. For
instance, you can no longer say "for k,v in mytable", and the proxy
itself is not protected from modification by metatable-unaware
functions like "table.insert". It's a bit of a kludge, no doubt.
Cheers,
Eric
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