Partial implementation of metatables.

src/test/java/LuacRunner.java

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ public class LuacRunner {
 		state.push( c );
 		for ( int i=0; i<args.length; i++ )
 			state.push( new LString(args[i]) );
-		state.docall(args.length, false);
+		state.docall(args.length, 0);
 
 		// print result? 
 		System.out.println("stack:");

src/test/res/compile.sh

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 LUA_HOME=/cygdrive/c/programs/lua5.1
 TESTS="test1 test2 test3 test4 test5"
-TESTS="test5"
+TESTS="test6"
 for x in $TESTS
 do
     echo compiling $x

src/test/res/test6.lua

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+t = { 11, 22, 33, you='one', me='two' }
+--[[
+for a,b in pairs(t) do
+	print( a, b )
+end
+print( "t[2]", t[2] )
+print( "t.me", t.me )
+print( "t.fred", t.fred )
+print( "t['me']", t["me"] )
+print( "t['fred']", t["fred"] )
+print( "me", me )
+print( "fred", fred )
+print( "t[me]", t[me] )
+print( "t[fred]", t[fred] )
+--]]
+
+-- basic metatable setting 
+t = { 11, 22, 33, you='one', me='two' }
+mt = { __index = print, __newindex = print }
+setmetatable(t,mt)
+a = t[11]
+b = t.one
+c = t[1]
+d = t.you
+t[4] = 'rat'
+t[1] = 'pipe'
+print( a, b, c, d )
+for a,b in pairs(t) do
+	print( a, b )
+end
+
+-- delegate to actual metatable
+s = { }
+mt = { __newindex = s, __index = _G }
+setmetatable(t, mt)
+print( t.you )
+x = 'wow'
+print( t.x )
+me = 'here'
+print( t.me )
+t[5] = 99
+for a,b in pairs(s) do
+	print( a, b )
+end