Re: [Proposal] _GETNAME upvalue

["Soni \"They/Them\" L." <fakedme@...>]

On 2021-06-21 4:33 a.m., Egor Skriptunoff wrote:
> Why might we want to redefine methods of an object locally (inside the
> current module) instead of globally (everywhere the object appears)?
> Please provide real-life examples
>

local _GETNAME = function(o, k)
  if type(o) == "table" and k == "insert" then return table.insert end
  return o[k]
end

This allows doing t:insert(foo) on any table t.