Question about metamethod __index

[dthecoolest]

@mc3334

table search itself

Actually not, it makes the table with the metatable set search the metatable table instead of searching itself.

This is usually for oop stuff as @xZylter mentions. Usually you have a table of properties and one single shared metatable containing all the functions that does stuff with those properties.

Here is it’s equivalent code piece example for the function inputted into the index function.

New to Metatables

Using @HugeCoolboy2007 .x example This: local myTable = {x=10} myTable.__index = myTable local meta = setmetatable({}, myTable) print(meta.x) --> prints 10 because the main table '{}' doesn't have that index but the metatable has that index Is equal to this: local myTable = {x=10} myTable.__index = function(someTable,index) return myTable[index] end local meta = setmetatable({}, myTable) print(meta.x) --> prints 10 because the main table '{}' doesn't have that index but the metatable ha…