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Originally Posted by Mayron It's hard explaining without showing the real code but doesn't the __index method only trigger if it cannot find the value in the normal table and then checks another table (the parent one like inheritance)? Because basically I want the __index function to ALWAYS trigger so to do this I use __newindex to add entries to the parent table rather than the normal table so every time a value is indexed using the normal table, it has to use the __index function which returns the value from the parent table, as well as perform other stuff. Here's an abbreviated example of the real code I am working on: local parent[mode] = {} -- do stuff modules[mod] = setmetatable({}, {     __index = function(_, key)                      if (type(parent[mod][key]) == "function") then                              -- do stuff         end         return parent[mod][key];     end,     __newindex = function(_, key, value)         if (type(value) == "function") then             -- do stuff         else             parent[mod][key] = value;         end     end, })

I think this is what you need then:

http://www.lua.org/pil/13.4.4.html