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Normalization of metamethod typography in the manual
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@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ under certain events.
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You can change several aspects of the behavior
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of a value by setting specific fields in its metatable.
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For instance, when a non-numeric value is the operand of an addition,
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Lua checks for a function in the field @St{__add} of the value's metatable.
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Lua checks for a function in the field @idx{__add} of the value's metatable.
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If it finds one,
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Lua calls this function to perform the addition.
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@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ In the previous example, the key is the string @St{__add}
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and the metamethod is the function that performs the addition.
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Unless stated otherwise,
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a metamethod may in fact be any @x{callable value},
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which is either a function or a value with a @id{__call} metamethod.
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which is either a function or a value with a @idx{__call} metamethod.
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You can query the metatable of any value
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using the @Lid{getmetatable} function.
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@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ when @id{key} is not present in @id{table}.
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The metavalue is looked up in the metatable of @id{table}.
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The metavalue for this event can be either a function, a table,
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or any value with an @id{__index} metavalue.
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or any value with an @idx{__index} metavalue.
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If it is a function,
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it is called with @id{table} and @id{key} as arguments,
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and the result of the call
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@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ is the result of the operation.
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Otherwise,
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the final result is the result of indexing this metavalue with @id{key}.
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This indexing is regular, not raw,
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and therefore can trigger another @id{__index} metavalue.
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and therefore can trigger another @idx{__index} metavalue.
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}
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@item{@idx{__newindex}|
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@ -526,14 +526,14 @@ The metavalue is looked up in the metatable of @id{table}.
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Like with indexing,
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the metavalue for this event can be either a function, a table,
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or any value with an @id{__newindex} metavalue.
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or any value with an @idx{__newindex} metavalue.
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If it is a function,
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it is called with @id{table}, @id{key}, and @id{value} as arguments.
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Otherwise,
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Lua repeats the indexing assignment over this metavalue
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with the same key and value.
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This assignment is regular, not raw,
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and therefore can trigger another @id{__newindex} metavalue.
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and therefore can trigger another @idx{__newindex} metavalue.
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Whenever a @idx{__newindex} metavalue is invoked,
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Lua does not perform the primitive assignment.
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@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ For an object (table or userdata) to be finalized when collected,
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you must @emph{mark} it for finalization.
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@index{mark (for finalization)}
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You mark an object for finalization when you set its metatable
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and the metatable has a field indexed by the string @St{__gc}.
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and the metatable has a @idx{__gc} metamethod.
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Note that if you set a metatable without a @idx{__gc} field
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and later create that field in the metatable,
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the object will not be marked for finalization.
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@ -3102,7 +3102,7 @@ Close the to-be-closed slot at the given index and set its value to @nil.
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The index must be the last index previously marked to be closed
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@see{lua_toclose} that is still active (that is, not closed yet).
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A @Lid{__close} metamethod cannot yield
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A @idx{__close} metamethod cannot yield
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when called through this function.
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(Exceptionally, this function was introduced in release 5.4.3.
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}
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@item{
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The use of the @idx{__lt} metamethod to emulate @id{__le}
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The use of the @idx{__lt} metamethod to emulate @idx{__le}
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has been removed.
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When needed, this metamethod must be explicitly defined.
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}
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@ -9130,7 +9130,7 @@ like any other error when calling a finalizer.)
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The function @Lid{print} does not call @Lid{tostring}
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to format its arguments;
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instead, it has this functionality hardwired.
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You should use @id{__tostring} to modify how values are printed.
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You should use @idx{__tostring} to modify how values are printed.
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}
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@item{
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