Re: Lua addition proposal: Userdata as function environment

[Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 03:24:53PM -0500, Rici Lake wrote:
> Why not just use an empty table whose __index and __newindex methods 
> use the userdata? In effect, they could be the same __index and 
> __newindex metamethods you would use with the userdata.
> 
> The following hardly changes your example at all:
> 
> (Note: I'm using lightuserdata here, something I would normally never 
> do, but you don't seem to be attaching a __gc metamethod to your 

I'm confused. I thought lightuserdata doesn't have an individual
metatable?

Sam