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From: lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org [mailto:lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org] On
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Subject: Re: Proposal: add all metamethods to the 2.4 section
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 08:17:55 -0300
From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
Subject: Re: Proposal: add all metamethods to the 2.4 section
On the 2.4 section of the reference manual some metamethods are
explained but not all.
It would be great to see all the methods available at a glance, for
instance missing methods are :
__pairs
__ipairs
__gc
__tostring
Execpt for __gc, the others are what we call "core metamethods": they
are features of the libraries.
For what it is worth I strongly agree with the OP on this (and have
mentioned it before myself). It does not need to be lengthy: just a list
of
the keys cross-referenced and hyperlinked to the section in the manual
where
they are fully described would be fine. At present there is no complete
list
of the keys used in the standard distribution (core and libraries), not
even
in the index. This makes it difficult when one is designing an object:
you'd
like to consider all the existing meta-keys for possible relevance and to
be
sure if adding more that existing ones are not being "stomped on".
