Re: __index and __newindex

[HyperHacker <hyperhacker@...>]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 09:53, Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch> wrote:
> 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.
>>
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Assuming you can buy it. There are a lot of things I want to buy
online that I could easily afford, but not having Paypal or a credit
card means I can't place the order.

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