Re: :? syntactical sugar request

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

>In Lua, if you want to send a message to an object, but only if that 
>method exists you can do:
>
>if object.message then
>  object:message()
>end

You could add an "index" tag method for this.  Something like this:

 local NOP=function () end
 settagmethod(tag(object),"index", function () return %NOP end)

--lhf