Take a look at the __usedindex patch: http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaPowerPatches
On 5/15/07, Brendan Dowling <crypt@tokidoki.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to make a system for catching errors in a somewhat large Lua
> project (~14,000 lines of Lua). Specifically, I'd like to catch
> reassignments of globals and entries in certain tables during the
> initialization phase. However, the __newindex meta method does not
> seem to get called for reassignments, only new assignments. This is
> probably a pretty simple hack, but I didn't see it in a search of the
> archives or a google search.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brendan Dowling
> Embedded Systems Engineer
> Harman International
>
