Re: equivalent of Perl's "AUTOLOAD"

[Andreas Stenius <kaos@...>]

Yes, you'ld want to look into the __newindex meta method.

George Jempty skrev:
> Is there an equivalent of Perl's "AUTOLOAD" in Lua?  Autoload is a 
> method that you implement that gets called when you call a method on an 
> object but that method name has not been defined.  Somewhere in the 
> online Lua book regarding metatables (I just ordered a hardcopy of the 
> 2nd edition through Amazon) I recall reading that if you call a method 
> that has not been named on an object in Lua, an error will be raised.  
> So if Lua does not have an equivalent of Perl's "AUTOLOAD", it would 
> seem it could be emulated when trapping this error.
>
> Feedback will be appreciated
>
> George