Setmetatable

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Available since: Gideros 2011.6
Class: (global)

Description

Sets the metatable for the given table. <syntaxhighlight lang="lua"> (table) = setmetatable(table,metatable) </source>

You cannot change the metatable of other types from Lua, only from C.

If metatable is nil, removes the metatable of the given table.

If the original metatable has a "__metatable" field, raises an error.

This function returns a table.

Parameters

table: (table) table to set metatable to
metatable: (varies) value to use as metatable

Return values

Returns (table) provided table