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
