Re: finding keys in a table

[Hans Hagen <pragma@...>]

Mark Hamburg wrote:

> My guess, however, would be that the __index approach is faster in the long
> run because while it makes the initialization case more expensive (it
> requires a Lua function call), it does the detection as part of the standard
> table fetch logic.

indeed, of course at the expense of an extra table, but that seldom is 
an issue; the __index method is of course also cleaner

Hans

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