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 Sometimes, you cannot avoid it. For example when generating a 1-1
 binding to a library which uses methods named as Lua keywords. An
 example of this is the Qt library - 19 of it's classes have a method
 named 'end' [1], which you cannot call using Lua's syntax sugar. You
 have to call it as follows:

     painter['end'](painter)

 Does someone propose an elegant way to handle this? :)

   painter._end = painter['end']

	You can use uppercase:

for k, v in pairs(painter) do
	if type(k) == "string" and type(v) == "function" then
		local K = k:gsub("^(.)", string.upper)
		painter[K] = v
	end
end
assert(painter['end'] == painter.End)

	Or, if you prefer, do it only for the keywords...

	Regards,
		Tomás