Re: Functions with individual metatables

[Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@...>]

On May 25, 2009, at 7:38 PM, Peter Cawley wrote:

> Functors (things which act like functions but are not of type
> function) cannot be passed to [standard] library functions which
> blindly check for a function rather than a callable object.

This is arguably a shortcoming of Lua's present implementation.

http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaVirtualization

Nothing should prevent the next release from being more respectful of  
metamethods.