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- Subject: Re: metatable transmission
- From: Mark Hamburg <mark@...>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:09:07 -0800
It's probably best not to think in terms of inheritance. Think in terms of of standalone objects built from a combination of a table and a metatable. Metatables are designed to be shared across instances so that one can put a certain amount of shared material there and avoid the costs of full object replication, but it isn't really an inheritance system.
It's taken a while for me to get that viewpoint through my head given years of programming in inheritance-oriented languages.
Mark
