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On Nov 21, 2013, at 11:32 PM, Kevin Martin <kev82@khn.org.uk> wrote:

> 2) I can guarantee that at some point in the future, that module which currently only has one function will need another, and the rewrite will be horrific if not returning a table.

Meh… behold the functable:

local aFunction = function() return 'Yeah!' end
debug.setmetatable( aFunction, { __index = function( self, aKey ) return aKey end } )

print( aFunction() )
print( aFunction.foo )
print( aFunction.bar )
print( aFunction.baz )