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- Subject: Re: Question about metatables
- From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 15:53:44 -0300
>Is it allowed to save other data than the event-handlers in metatables?
>I need a simple way to assign userdata different 'types' (like bitmap, =
>font etc.).
Sure: metatables are ordinary tables. For instance, tostring looks into
them and see whether they contain a "__tostring" field. This is used by the
io library for error messages.
--lhf
