Re: multi-level inheritance and __index

[Dave Hayden <dave@...>]

On Jan 14, 2015, at 3:20 PM, Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I want to synthesize properties on the base class using __index and __newindex so that they're available to all instances.
> 
> To add methods to "all instances" of a class, you just add methods to
> the table that's the __index field on every instance's metatable, like
> so: [...]

Okay, but if I want to define an __index function to synthesize a property, I seem to be out of luck: The metatable is passed into __index(self, key), not the instance object.

Can someone verify that Lua just doesn't work that way?

-D