Re: idea of vision of blueprint of ROADMAP of Lua core

[Wim Couwenberg <w.couwenberg@...>]

> > > -  proxy constructions

> Did I miss something? I thought this proxy stuff was not part of the
> language, but rather a common lua pattern.

There is an (undocumented?) function "newproxy" in the baselib.  But 
actually I meant the proxy idea in general, which is related to...

> > > +  __settable, __gettable metamethods

> As I see it, those are meant to be counterparts to __index and
> __newindex, with the difference that they intercept accesses to values
> already defined in the table. With those one could get rid of the
> proxy constructions. 

Exactly.  ("settable" and "gettable" were tag methods in Lua 4, hence my 
notation.  Maybe __getindex and __setindex would be more appropriate Lua 
5 names.)

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Wim