On Oct 14, 2014, at 4:42 AM, Thiago L. <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I guess you can claim this is a proposal but I also want feedback on it...
The idea is new semantics for __newindex so you can use it without rawset():
function __newindex(t,k,v)
if condition then
return k,nv
elseif othercondition then
return nk,v
elseif anothercondition then
return nk,nv
else
return k,v
end
end
Unless your __newindex returns junk, this shouldn't break anything.
Thanks.
I think the biggest argument against this is that it only applies to tables. What about userdata? Having the added complexity of tables be a special cases doesn’t seem to be warranted by the minor convenience.
—Tim