Re: String access & metamethods

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> You can't do that in pure Lua, because in some cases no metamethod is
> involved (see below).

sure there is. try this:

getmetatable("").__tostring=function (x) return "<<<"..x..">>>" end

for k,v in next,string do print(k,v) end
print("hello")