Lua calling a metatable's metatable function

[Drakkahn]

First off, this does not involve the love library in anyway, this is about lua.

Okay, so I have custom index for my metatable, which works fine and dandy. However, I'm trying to call the metatable's metatable and I can't seem to get it to work. I keep getting the error "stack overflow"

EXAMPLE CODE:

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variables={}
test={}
test_mt={}
test_mt.__index=function(tbl,key)

	if variables[key]~=nil then return variables[key]
	else

		local mt=getmetatable(tbl)
		mt.__index(tbl,key)

	end

end

test_mt2={}
test_mt2.__index=function(tbl,key)

	print(tostring(tbl) .. "." .. key .. " has not been set in variables!")
	return nil

end

setmetatable(test_mt,test_mt2)
setmetatable(test,test_mt)

print(test.stuff)

[s-ol]

First off, this does not involve the love library in anyway, this is about lua.

Okay, so I have custom index for my metatable, which works fine and dandy. However, I'm trying to call the metatable's metatable and I can't seem to get it to work. I keep getting the error "stack overflow"

EXAMPLE CODE:

Code: Select all

variables={}
test={}
test_mt={}
test_mt.__index=function(tbl,key)

	if variables[key]~=nil then return variables[key]
	else

		local mt=getmetatable(tbl)
		mt.__index(tbl,key)

	end

end

test_mt2={}
test_mt2.__index=function(tbl,key)

	print(tostring(tbl) .. "." .. key .. " has not been set in variables!")
	return nil

end
setmetatable(test_mt,test_mt2)
setmetatable(test,test_mt)

print(test.stuff)

getmetatable(tbl) is test_mt, so your __index calls itself infinetely, causing a stack overflow.

[Drakkahn]

Ya it just hit me, thanks alot.

For anyone who was wondering how I fixed it I changed:

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mt.__index(tbl,key)

To:

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mt.__index(mt,key)