From 22df267ff0926a3dd14dd1cc5cbf31f16086c5b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Walter Seikel
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 16:58:58 +1000
Subject: Change Thing to being fully a proxy table, coz __newindex() only
 works for nil valued table elements.

---
 ClientHamr/GuiLua/skang.lua | 13 ++++---------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

(limited to 'ClientHamr/GuiLua/skang.lua')

diff --git a/ClientHamr/GuiLua/skang.lua b/ClientHamr/GuiLua/skang.lua
index c9a58ff..f88ff1c 100644
--- a/ClientHamr/GuiLua/skang.lua
+++ b/ClientHamr/GuiLua/skang.lua
@@ -237,15 +237,8 @@ Thing.hasCrashed = 0		-- How many times this Thing has crashed.
 Thing.__index = function (table, key)
 	-- This only works for keys that don't exist.  By definition a value of nil means it doesn't exist.
 	local thing = things[key]
-
 	-- First see if this is a Thing.
-	if thing then
-	    local result = nil
-	    if key ~= thing.names[1] then
-		result = table[thing.names[1] ]		-- This might be recursive.
-	    end
-	    return result or thing.default
-	end
+	if thing then return thing.value or thing.default end
 
 	-- Then see if we can inherit it from Thing.
 	thing = Thing[key]
@@ -256,11 +249,13 @@ Thing.__index = function (table, key)
     end
 
 Thing.__newindex = function (table, key, value)
+	-- This only works for keys that don't exist.  By definition a value of nil means it doesn't exist.
 	local thing = things[key]
 
 	if thing then
 	    local name = thing.names[1]
-	    rawset(table, name, value)		-- Only stuff it under the first name, the rest are left as nil.
+	    -- This is a proxy table, the values never exist in the real table.
+	    thing.value = value
 	    if 'function' == type(value) then
 		thing.func = value
 	        local types = ''
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