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- Subject: Re: The __newindex metamethod
- From: steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:29:56 +0200
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Mark Hamburg <mark@grubmah.com> wrote:
> There are certainly arguments for a metamethod that gets invoked on every write instead of just on writes to undefined keys.
But as long as the proxy pattern works, then such a metamethod is an
optimization. And slowing down all table writes is not such a good
trade-off.
I think __methindex allows genuinely new behaviour - that is, the
ability to make method lookup distinct from field lookup.
steve d.
