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attach powerful metamethods to tables, allowing for manipulation like indexing, addition, and concatenation.

All you need to know about and Metamethods

It's just a matter of asking “when that metamethod fires”. The Dev wiki shows you all the metamethods has, describing when they 

Full Beginner Guide To - Developer Forum |

are a powerful feature in Luau, the programming language used in scripting. A metatable is a special Luau table that allows us 

When to use - Developer Forum |

Most of the time you will use for OOP, but even there it isn't strictly necessary unless you deal with inheritance which is basically 

When is a metatable 'really' required? - Developer Forum |

aren't essential to programming and are only really used when developers need to use OOP when developing their games. Some game 

metamethods for dummies - Developer Forum |

Ah yes, something that new scripters have a hard time grasping? Am I wrong? If so then prove me wrong.

Using Luau types with - Developer Forum |

The way to resolve this is to change the “:” to a “.” in the method declaration. You would then specify the type of “self”, which only works if 

What's the point/use-case in - Developer Forum |

allow us to change the behavior of a table. For instance, using we can define how Lua computes the expression a+b, where 

Is it worth learning - Developer Forum |

We can definitely say that, are those type of things that are not necessary to learn and use, but learning and using them will give 

What are meta tables and what are some examples to use them

Developer Forum | · What are meta tables and what are some There isn't really a definition to what a metatable is.