Re: Why do we not have an __unindex metamethod?

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

On 14/04/15 08:58 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> > Why do we not have an __unindex metamethod, that gets called when a
> > key gets set to nil (either by GC or manually (including rawset))?
> If you need control over set and get events for a table, use a proxy table.
>
> In any case, rawset is for *raw* access, so no metamethods are called.
We have __gc already, I don't think anyone would mind another "special" 
metamethod. (__unindex would be kinda like __gc but for table keys)

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