Re: Checking if a table has changed

[Jamie Webb <j@...>]

On Thursday 11 December 2003 08:22, Florian Berger wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Is there a simple and efficient way to check if a table has changed? By
> using metatables I'm able to catch some modifications but not all of them.

You could use a proxy table with a __newindex which makes modifications to the 
actual table and sets a 'modified' flag. Since the proxy table stays empty, 
__newindex is always called.

 -- Jamie Webb

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