Re: Long chains of objects (aka tables)

["Thiago L." <fakedme@...>]

On 17/05/2014 03:20, Mike Nelson wrote:
> 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
You don't need a function() end there, you can also use an empty {}