RE: equivalent of Perl's "AUTOLOAD"

["Paul Hudson" <phudson@...>]

Seems equivalent to me. Load the definition of the function from a file only when it’s called?

 

P.

 

---

From: lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br [mailto:lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br] On Behalf Of George Jempty
Sent: 27 June 2006 13:29
To: Lua list
Subject: Re: equivalent of Perl's "AUTOLOAD"

 

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


-----Original Message-----
From: lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br
[mailto:lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br] On Behalf Of Luiz Henrique de
Figueiredo
Sent: 27 June 2006 12:45
To: Lua list
Subject: Re: equivalent of Perl's "AUTOLOAD"

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

No, it's the __index metamethod.