Re: [PATCH] setmetatable({}) causes error

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> As I said in the previous message, the disconnect is that what is
> documented as a non-vararg function, behaves as a vararg function. And the
> other disconnect is in your assumption that the readers of the manual
> should know better than to expect that the "standard library" functions
> behave like ordinary non-vararg Lua functions. The starter of this thread
> obviously had a different assumption, and so did I in the past.

We intend to make the manual clearer about that.

-- Roberto