Re: Best way to have table-like fields on userdata

[Tomas <tomas@...>]

	Hi Brian

> What is the best way to support something akin to table like fields on 
> userdata, so you can have:
>
> foo.status = 201
> foo:puts("hello world")
>
> where foo is a userdata?
>
> Using the metatable for adding methods as described in PiL works well for 
> adding methods to it, but providing an __index on the metatable causes 
> __index to be invoked rather than looking up the value in the metatable.
	Try __newindex.  See PiL's page 267.

	Regards
		Tomas