Re: little questions

["GrayFace" <sergroj@...>]

Except for one - metatable. The most 'shallow copy' way is to keep the same 
metatable, but it may be good to make an exception: if the original table is 
its own metatable, the new table should also become its own metatable.





----- Original Message ----- 
From: steve donovan
To: Lua list
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: little questions


On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Thomas Lauer <thomas.lauer@virgin.net> 
wrote:
> It's not that easy. First, Idle only ever creates a metatable and
> initialises __index for tables created via an explicit call to
> table.new(). Tables created via t={} are plain tables w/o a metatable.
> So there's a choice to start with.

Sorry, Thomas, then I misunderstood. Having it explicit removes all 
objections.

steve d.