Re: why doesnt a[1] = 1 work?

[Peter Odding <xolox@...>]

Markus Heukelom wrote:
> However, I agree this might have some other (ugly) repercussions not
> immediately obvious at this moment. 
>
> (In fact, to implement this behavior, I would have to change the __newindex
> methods of the nil, number, string, etc  matetable (can only in c), right?
> Not that I will do that - just for the idea.)

Apart from whether it's possible to set a metatable for nil (never tried), note 
that you'd only be able to do this for scalars, i.e. not for tables and 
userdata, because there's no `global' metatable for these types.

About this concept in general, I don't think it would fit Lua very well. PHP 
allows it, and that's caused me a few hard to find bugs.

 - Peter Odding