Re: __index and __newindex

[Marc Balmer <marc@...>]

Am 27.04.11 17:24, schrieb Alexander Gladysh:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 15:02, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote:
>> Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> A reference manual should generally explain each thing once, concisely and
>> unambiguously.
> 
> It also should be easy to comprehend — and it is certainly much more
> important than "once" and "concisely".
> 
> Otherwise this is language standard we're talking about, not reference
> manual — that's two different documents, not mutually exclusive.
> 
>> Newbies who don't understand metamethods should read PiL
>> before consulting the reference manual. It sounds to me like you are
>> asking for a description similar to http://www.lua.org/pil/13.4.1.html
> 
> Sadly, PiL is commercial, so it is much less available to the users.

That is amongst the most st*pid things I ever heard.  To you know how
much time and effort it takes to create such an oeuvre?  If you don't
have the few dollars left to buy this excellent book, then I really
wonder what you are eating at the end of day.

> And the fact that PiL 1 is freely available does not make things
> better — in my experience, many get confused when they try to apply
> 5.0-only concepts to 5.1. But I digress, this has nothing to do with
> original topic.
> 
> Alexander.
>