Re: table.insert/remove and metatables

["Alex Davies" <alex.mania@...>]

Dr. Markus Walther wrote:

> Question: Shouldn't table.insert/remove respect metatables (__index, 
> __newindex) for reasons of symmetry and principle-of-least-surprise?

I've always thought the above. I think it's left around from old versions of 
Lua before metatables. Personally I'd prefer that everything respected them, 
from ipairs (should use __index) through to table.sort. Especially seeing as 
the speedup is minimal by performing raw access. Would make making proxy 
tables a lot easier, and as for compatibility, I'd say using these functions 
to deliberately avoid metamethods seems like incorrect use imo. My 2c :).

- Alex