Re: Inheriting from a userdata object

[Peng Zhicheng <pengzhicheng1986@...>]

ä 2012-6-16 1:29, Dirk Laurie åé:

2012/6/15 Stephen Virgo <stephen@creative-assembly.com>:

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The immediate problem can be solved thus: game_wrapper.out = function(self,...) return game:out(...) end But using object-oriented calls is rather pointless if you are going to throw away the implied `self`. So I'd rather do it this way: game_wrapper.out = function(...) return game:out(...) end and call it as my_game.out("This text should appear in the debug console like as if

or you may store the real object somewhere and the __index meta method retrives it and delegate the indexing to it.
for example, you may store the real object in a field of the wrapper object, say, __proto__, the code look like:

----------------- code begin -----------------------

 local game = game_class:new()

 local game_wrapper = {}
 local game_wrapper_mt = {}

 function game_wrapper_mt:__index(key)
  return self.__proto__[key]
 end

 function game_wrapper:new()
ÂÂÂ return setmetatable({__proto__ = game}, game_wrapper_mt)
 end

 my_game = game_wrapper:new()

 my_game:out("This text should appear in the debug console like as if Iâd called game:out()!")

-------------------- code end ----------------------


another way is to store the map from the wrapper to the real object in an external (weak) table.