Re: A metatable for nil?

[Paul K <paul@...>]

> There are no doubt good reasons, but why no metatable for nil?

There is, just need to use debug.setmetatable:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/109403

Paul.

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Gavin Wraith <gavin@wra1th.plus.com> wrote:
> There are no doubt good reasons, but why no metatable for
> nil? If you forget to require a library you will have
> lots of nil values being applied as functions or being indexed
> as tables. It would be nice to handle the resulting
> errors in a controlled way by assigning to
> (getmetatable ( )).__call and (getmetatable ( )).__index.
>
> I woke up in the middle of the night to send this query,
> so apologies if the brain is not firing on all cylinders.
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> Gavin Wraith (gavin@wra1th.plus.com)
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