Re: "nesting" metatables

[Egor Skriptunoff <egor.skriptunoff@...>]

On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Jonathan Goble <jcgoble3@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Egor Skriptunoff
<egor.skriptunoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Jonathan Goble <jcgoble3@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> This metatable chaining could theoretically continue indefinitely.
>
> The nested metatable limit is 2000 levels for Lua 5.3 (and 100 for LuaJIT).

Hence "theoretically". :)

I figured there were recursion limits, as in practice stack overflow
become a concern.

It seems that nesting of "__index" metamethods results in tail calls.