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- Subject: Re: length operator # for tables with metatables
- From: Greg Falcon <veloso@...>
- Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:41:54 -0400
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Leo Razoumov <slonik.az@gmail.com> wrote:
> The real problem is that in a common idiom "t[#t+1]=v" t[i] obeys
> meta-method resolution while #t ignores metatable altogether.
But it's been mentioned on this thread already that in 5.2, #t will
respect a __len metamethod. So what you are calling "the real
problem" has already been addressed.
Greg F
