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2014-03-31 22:30 GMT+02:00 Thiago L. <fakedme@gmail.com>:
>
> On 31/03/2014 17:26, Dirk Laurie wrote:

>> debug.setmetatable("", setmetatable({},{
>> __index = function(key)
> Pretty sure that doesn't work :P

OK, it does not.

   "the access to a metamethod does not invoke other metamethods"

In that case, there is a design reason why this is so, and allowing
a metatable to be replaced by a function would defeat that design.