Re: The Clear Table Saga

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> The __index metamethod receives the nil key, and can act on it, but
> the __newindex metamethod doesn't; the error is generated before the
> metamethod is called. This is an undocumented difference from Lua 4, I
> believe.

Lua 4 has no __newindex method.

-- Roberto