Possible "inconsistent" reference to gettable_event in reference manual

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

Hi all!

Browsing the ref man of Lua 5.3.4 I stumbled on this.

In section 3.2 it's written:

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The meaning of accesses to table fields can be changed via metatables. 
An access to an indexed variable t[i] is equivalent to a call 
gettable_event(t,i). (See §2.4 for a complete description of the 
gettable_event function. This function is not defined or callable in 
Lua. We use it here only for explanatory purposes.)
----------------------------

but in section 2.4 there is no mention of that "fake" gettable_event 
function. In fact there is no other mention to it in the whole manual!

Could it be a remnant of older reference manual versions (I faintly 
recall something in 5.1 manual) that escaped recent editing?


Cheers!

-- Lorenzo