I have read many posts on the newproxy() function but I still haven’t been able to grasp the full application of using it. Like I know with newproxy() you can indirectly access a table and how its a lua global and userdata, but why would that be useful?? And what would be the best application / scenario of where I would use newproxy()
I am not really a fast learner I’m more of a visualizer so I would appreciate a code example too. Thanks
You can’t use setmetatable on a userdata, nor can you use rawget or rawset on a userdata. Making them perfect proxies, hence newproxy. And in Lua 5.1, __len only fires on userdata. In Roblox you probably won’t find too much use for newproxy though
ohh so basically newproxy() is more convenient than without it since you don’t have to type rawget or rawset all the time due to indirect access of a proxy. I think thats what u mean. Gotchu.
no, not that. The point is to prevent the use to obtain access to private members.