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On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 12:15:04PM +0200, steve donovan wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Rob Kendrick <rjek@rjek.com> wrote:
> > No.  There is no intended meaning.  One could write a __slice function
> > that did this, though.
> 
> Ah, so it's sugar for this particular global __slice - or is this
> meant to be a metamethod of t?

t[1, 2, 3] is to  __slice(t, 1, 2, 3) as t[1] is to __index(t, 1).  ie,
a metamethod.

B.