Re: __gc visible to lua code...

[Michael Broughton <mbobowik@...>]

I guess one reason might be that obj.__index would give up your 
metatable, even if you have set the __metatable field?

Mike

Michael Broughton wrote:
> You suggest that it is not a good idea to combine the metatable and 
> method table for userdata. Is performance the only reason?
>
> Sorry if I have been confusing terminology in my emails. I always 
> combine the metatable and method table in my libraries. The third 
> party Lua libraries I've looked at do this as well. So do the examples 
> in PIL2.
>
> Mike