Re: How catch new globals?

[Javier Guerra <javier@...>]

Quoting "J. Perkins" <starkos@gmail.com>: 
 
> For 5.0 I tried to do this: 
>  
>   lua_pushvalue(L, LUA_GLOBALSINDEX); 
>   lua_getmetatable(L, -1); 
>   lua_pushstring(L, "__newindex"); 
>   lua_pushcfunction(L, getglobal); 
>   lua_settable(L, -3) 
 
are you checking what's returned by lua_getmetatable()?  you're supposed to 
create a table, populate it and then assign (with setmetatable()) to a value. 
if not, getmetatable() will return nil (because that value doesn't have a 
metatable yet) 
 
 
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Javier