Re: Guessing the expected result type from an __index function

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@gmx.net> wrote:

I'd rather see extra parameters to the __index metamethod for the following case:
    local v = matrix[ 1, 2 ]

It's been discussed ;)  Cool, unless it slows down the common case too much.

As for the very useful distinction between method and field lookup, see

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2009-11/msg00715.html