Re: equivalent of Perl's "AUTOLOAD"

["George Jempty" <jemptymethod@...>]

Thanks to everyone for the responses!  I did recall the book discussing "autoload" but I don't think it means the same thing in Lua as in Perl, but please correct me if I'm wrong.

On 6/27/06, Paul Hudson <phudson@pobox.com> wrote:

And autoload is in the PiL book

http://www.lua.org/pil/15.5.html


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Subject: Re: equivalent of Perl's "AUTOLOAD"

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

No, it's the __index metamethod.