Re: [Proposal] _GETNAME upvalue

[Notabored guy <notaboredguy@...>]

I personally don't see the use of it.

On Mon, Jun 21, 2021, 12:48 Soni "They/Them" L. <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:

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.