Re: is "__metatable" an event similar to "__gc" and "__tostring" or is it a convention?

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Subject: Re: is "__metatable" an event similar to "__gc" and "__tostring" or is it a convention?
From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 10:13:31 -0300

__metatable is for protecting metatables. If you do not want a program
to change the contents of a metatable, you set its __metatable field.
With that, the program cannot access the metatable (and therefore cannot
change it).

-- Roberto

Follow-Ups:
- RE: is "__metatable" an event similar to "__gc" and "__tostring" oris it a convention?, Vijay Aswadhati

References:
- Re: is "__metatable" an event similar to "__gc" and "__tostring" or is it a convention?, Adam D. Moss

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