Re: The call "tag" in 5.0-work0

[Tom Wrensch <twrensch@...>]

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, [iso-8859-1] Björn De Meyer wrote:

> Tom Wrensch wrote:
> > 
> > Sorry, just answered by own dumb question. You need to put underscores
> > before the name in 5.0 work 0.
> > 
> 
> Hmm... is this to facilitate the use of tables as their own
> metatables? Or is that not allowed?

Well, I tried this:

  > t = {}
  > metatable(t,t)
  > t.__call = function(...) print(unpack(arg)) end
  > t(1,2,3)
  table: 003FDCB0 1       2       3

In Lua 5.0 work-0 and it worked just fine. So I'd have to say that it is
definitely allowed. Opens up some interesting possibilities, doesn't it?

  - Tom