metatables

[wary cedar]

dont understand metatables

[deep wing]

ok

why do you want to know metatables

[wary cedar]

to get to more advanced topics of OOP and the syntax in general

@deep wing

[deep wing]

have you watched any videos on it yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk8UVm-gxBs
sulphi is good

[dim marlin]

i dont understand them either i dont bother with them icl

[prisma stag]

Table on table

[wary cedar]

ty ima watch

[prisma stag]

And when you do certain things to a table, it checks for a meta table with meta method attached

So when you index a table it checks for __index meta method

[wary cedar]

okay so @deep wing i get what metatables do but what does .__index do

[ember abyss]

** You are now Level 6! **

[deep wing]

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/what-does-index-do/825383

[wary cedar]

ty

oh well that's simpler then i thought

thanks for ur help

[deep wing]

ya

its kinda bloat anyway

i only use oop for fun

[wary cedar]

oh

[wary cedar]

so theres no reason to use oop

?

[deep wing]

no one is forcing you too

its a paradigm

you use it if you wanna

[wary cedar]

what would you use it for

[deep wing]

a game with alot of entities or things i could make classes for

i also use it for making services