Getmetatable

Available since: Gideros 2011.6
Class: (global)

Returns the metatable of the given object. <syntaxhighlight lang="lua"> (table) = getmetatable(object) </source>

if object does not have a metatable, returns nil.
if the object metatable has a "__metatable" field, returns the associated value.
otherwise, returns the metatable of the given object.

object: (object) object from which to get metatable

Returns (table) metatable

Anonymous