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authorRoberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br>2021-03-02 13:50:00 -0300
committerRoberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br>2021-03-02 13:50:00 -0300
commitb7eb21c1efbd33affb87479fc6055914fe9ab009 (patch)
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parentcf23a93d820558acdb8b1f0db85fdb94e709fee2 (diff)
downloadlua-github-b7eb21c1efbd33affb87479fc6055914fe9ab009.tar.gz
Normalization of metamethod typography in the manual
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diff --git a/manual/manual.of b/manual/manual.of
index e7040b2b..2e15839a 100644
--- a/manual/manual.of
+++ b/manual/manual.of
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ under certain events.
You can change several aspects of the behavior
of a value by setting specific fields in its metatable.
For instance, when a non-numeric value is the operand of an addition,
-Lua checks for a function in the field @St{__add} of the value's metatable.
+Lua checks for a function in the field @idx{__add} of the value's metatable.
If it finds one,
Lua calls this function to perform the addition.
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ In the previous example, the key is the string @St{__add}
and the metamethod is the function that performs the addition.
Unless stated otherwise,
a metamethod may in fact be any @x{callable value},
-which is either a function or a value with a @id{__call} metamethod.
+which is either a function or a value with a @idx{__call} metamethod.
You can query the metatable of any value
using the @Lid{getmetatable} function.
@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ when @id{key} is not present in @id{table}.
The metavalue is looked up in the metatable of @id{table}.
The metavalue for this event can be either a function, a table,
-or any value with an @id{__index} metavalue.
+or any value with an @idx{__index} metavalue.
If it is a function,
it is called with @id{table} and @id{key} as arguments,
and the result of the call
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ is the result of the operation.
Otherwise,
the final result is the result of indexing this metavalue with @id{key}.
This indexing is regular, not raw,
-and therefore can trigger another @id{__index} metavalue.
+and therefore can trigger another @idx{__index} metavalue.
}
@item{@idx{__newindex}|
@@ -526,14 +526,14 @@ The metavalue is looked up in the metatable of @id{table}.
Like with indexing,
the metavalue for this event can be either a function, a table,
-or any value with an @id{__newindex} metavalue.
+or any value with an @idx{__newindex} metavalue.
If it is a function,
it is called with @id{table}, @id{key}, and @id{value} as arguments.
Otherwise,
Lua repeats the indexing assignment over this metavalue
with the same key and value.
This assignment is regular, not raw,
-and therefore can trigger another @id{__newindex} metavalue.
+and therefore can trigger another @idx{__newindex} metavalue.
Whenever a @idx{__newindex} metavalue is invoked,
Lua does not perform the primitive assignment.
@@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ For an object (table or userdata) to be finalized when collected,
you must @emph{mark} it for finalization.
@index{mark (for finalization)}
You mark an object for finalization when you set its metatable
-and the metatable has a field indexed by the string @St{__gc}.
+and the metatable has a @idx{__gc} metamethod.
Note that if you set a metatable without a @idx{__gc} field
and later create that field in the metatable,
the object will not be marked for finalization.
@@ -3102,7 +3102,7 @@ Close the to-be-closed slot at the given index and set its value to @nil.
The index must be the last index previously marked to be closed
@see{lua_toclose} that is still active (that is, not closed yet).
-A @Lid{__close} metamethod cannot yield
+A @idx{__close} metamethod cannot yield
when called through this function.
(Exceptionally, this function was introduced in release 5.4.3.
@@ -9094,7 +9094,7 @@ want the old behavior
}
@item{
-The use of the @idx{__lt} metamethod to emulate @id{__le}
+The use of the @idx{__lt} metamethod to emulate @idx{__le}
has been removed.
When needed, this metamethod must be explicitly defined.
}
@@ -9130,7 +9130,7 @@ like any other error when calling a finalizer.)
The function @Lid{print} does not call @Lid{tostring}
to format its arguments;
instead, it has this functionality hardwired.
-You should use @id{__tostring} to modify how values are printed.
+You should use @idx{__tostring} to modify how values are printed.
}
@item{