RE: Metamethod when removing an index from a table?

["Paul Hudson" <phudson@...>]

>> I can check for the metamethod and return to the original pairs etc
>> implementation pretty quickly...

>Or you can store the actual table in the proxy and make pairs and friends
>work on the actual table when handed a proxy. Easy to do in Lua and fast
>too.

Yes, that's more or less what I meant (the only way I know I've got a proxy
is to look for the metatable or metamethod). But checking for __next is more
general (allowing, e.g. tables where pairs() orders the keys)

P.