Re: Lookup nil table index

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* On 2006-11-30 Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote  :

> > 	a = thing.foo.bar.this.that
> > 
> > When one of the indicated elements does not exist, an error is generated
> > for apperent reasons: attempt to index nil value.
> 
> You can achive this by setting an __index metamethod for nil, but you
> will have to set it through C. (More exactly, you need C to set a
> metatable for nil. After that you can use Lua to set the metamethod.)

Yes, that works for me, thank you very much!

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