Re: Long chains of objects (aka tables)

[Mike Nelson <mikestar1313@...>]

On 5/16/2014 4:18 PM, Andrew Starks wrote:
<snip/>
> Test it yourself:
>
> debug.setmetable(nil, { __index = nil})
>
> Then the `.`  operator will behave like ?
>
> I'm curious for the results.
>
> -Andrew 

This code doesn't work for me on a vanilla Lua 5.2 interpreter. The 
following code does:

debug.setmetatable(nil, { __index = function() end})

I haven't benckmarked it yet.

-- Mike