Re: rawget() & metamethods

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 10-Aug-05, at 3:30 PM, PA wrote:

> Shouldn't rawget() _only_ return values which are effectively defined 
> by a table, metatable and metamethods notwithstanding?

Yes.

> What gives?

My first guess would be that __eq and friends are actually in the table 
you're enumerating.

Unless you've redefined pairs(), the call to rawget is not particularly 
useful, since the standard pairs() function is also ignorant of 
metamethods.