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- Subject: Re: file proxy?
- From: Duncan Cross <duncan.cross@...>
- Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:37:55 +0000
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 2:15 PM, spir <denis.spir@free.fr> wrote:
> Lua files don't seem to have any metatable, so I created one:
No, they do!
> It seems the metatable in a way "hides" builtin methods. ?
Lua files are userdata objects, and as such the only way they can
*have* methods is if they have a metatable that includes an __index
table or function. That is the only mechanism that allows for it. If
you get the metatable of a file you will see that it includes an
__index table, and this is what contains all the method functions
(read, write, close, etc.).
-Duncan
