-- The purpose of this test case is to check -- that certain simple metatable operations work properly t = { b='bbb' } t.__index = t u = {} setmetatable( u, t ) u.c = 'ccc' print( 't.a', t.a ) print( 'u.a', u.a ) print( 't.b', t.b ) print( 'u.b', u.b ) print( 't.c', t.c ) print( 'u.c', u.c )