Re: setmetatable vs debug.setmetatable?

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, PA wrote:
>
> With setmetatable, one can assign a metatable per table instance. One the
> other hand, debug.setmetatable seems to assign a metatable per object type,
> not object instance, e.g.:

See paragraph 5 of section 2.8 of the reference manual. Only tables and
userdata have per-value metatables. The other metatables are per-type.

Tony.
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