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On 2018-04-03 11:18 AM, Gé Weijers wrote:
On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 12:44 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com <mailto:dirk.laurie@gmail.com>> wrote: 

    The border function is already beautifully documented, but not named,
    in the manual. However, it is hidden by the __len metamethod, and in
    particular cannot be called by that metamethod. It would be nice to
    have it exposed, and `table.border` seems like a natural place for it.
    To achieve that while conforming to the custom that the libraries use
    only lualib.h and lauxlib.h, one would need `int lua_border(lua_State
    *L, int index)`.
What about 'rawlen' and the C function 'lua_rawlen'? They ignore the __len metamethod. 

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Gé


What about a table.border that respects __index?

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