Re: Any pitfalls to the nil index idiom?

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

So, the discussion is about "early error detection in Lua programs" vs. "handy behavior of emptiness"?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:

   debug.setmetatable(nil,{__index = load''})

Let's make one more step in that direction:
local nop = load''; debug.setmetatable(nil, {__index = nop, __call = nop})

P.S. BTW, thanks for codegolf trick :-)