Re: suggestion: __typeof()

["Michael T. Richter" <ttmrichter@...>]

On Wed, 2006-18-01 at 11:19 +0000, Lisa Parratt wrote:
> > I'm always a fan of enforcing polite coding behaviour in the language.  ;)

> This is great for many uses, but totally kills the utility of the 
> function for proxy objects.

> What if my userdata is a proxy for an external vector, and therefore 
> wants to present itself to Lua code as a table? With a simple __typeof 
> metamethod, it can simply return "table". With your proposed "forced 
> politeness", it's back to patching out idiot proofing before someone who 
> understands and accepts the consequences of their actions can use Lua to 
> it's full.
Wouldn't a table holding your userdata do the same thing?  Return type "table" I mean?

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