And autoload is in the PiL book http://www.lua.org/pil/15.5.html -----Original Message----- From: lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br [mailto:lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br] On Behalf Of Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo Sent: 27 June 2006 12:45 To: Lua list Subject: Re: equivalent of Perl's "AUTOLOAD" > Yes, you'ld want to look into the __newindex meta method. No, it's the __index metamethod.