Re: __index returns truncated to one, why?

[duz <duz@...>]

On 11.04.2014 08:35, Thomas Jericke wrote:
> On 04/11/2014 08:39 AM, duz wrote:
> > Hmm, after *you* wrote an __index method that returns two values, 
> > *you* are surprised it does?
> Why do you assume that the person who wrote "foo(tracker[1]) " is the
> same as the one who wrote __index for tracker?
>
> I write a lot of functions used by others, for projects that are used
> over years.
> --
> Thomas

What I mean is it takes a conscious decision to use that.
You would document it and it would serve a purpose like in my example.

Unless there are __index methods out there which return multiple
values already and the users are protected from them by Lua throwing
them away, nobody will be caught by surprise and harmed.