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Alexandr
#1 Posted : Monday, August 16, 2021 3:25:01 PM(UTC)
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Hi everyone!

If I call 'dofile' for the same 'nut' twice 'newslot' isn't called for the second time and all the exported methods (from the first call of 'newslot') are lost.
Is it OK? Is there any way to detect the second call of 'newslot'?
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#2 Posted : Wednesday, August 25, 2021 7:17:01 AM(UTC)
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This is intended behaviour.
Metamethods are not bound to squirrel language instructions, but rather internal processing _caused_ by instructions.
Hence newslot is called when a new slot in fact gets created, while metmethod set is called for an already existing slot and gets assigned a new value or reference (which is exactly what happens when you "dofile" a second time in the same table context).
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