Re: Inheritance

[Florian Weimer <fw@...>]

* Christoph Schreiber:

> The following code works. But I don't understand why. That drives me nuts.
>
> int ChildClass::index(lua_State* L)
> {
>     const char* key = luaL_checkstring(L, 2);
>     lua_getmetatable(L, 1);
>     lua_getfield(L, -1, key);
>     if(lua_isnil(L, -1))
>     {
>         luaL_getmetatable(L, Base::classId);
>         lua_getfield(L, -1, key);
>     return 1;
> }

A closing brace is missing in that snippet.  Perhaps you did not copy
the full function?  And you shold really tell us what is so surprising
to you.

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