Re: Userdata Environments

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 13-Feb-07, at 6:48 PM, Wesley Smith wrote:
> I understand this is usally the case.  But I want per-instance custom
> behavior whereas the metatable is for class behavior.  From the wiki
> article:
>
> "A userdata has both a metatable and an environment table. It seems
> logical that the metatable contains information which is general to
> the datatype of the userdata, while the environment table contains
> information which is specific to the instance of the userdata."
>
> What I don't undertand right now is how a userdata and its environment
> table interact.

There's a more completely worked out example at 
UserdataEnvironmentExamples