Solved Questions about Inheritance & Metatables

[Omni Cloud]

I am not exactly certain how a metatable is constructed but also how it inherits from one metatable to another.

Although this code works, I am not sure how it works if that makes any sense.

Creature = {}
Creature.__index = Creature

setmetatable(Creature, {
    __call = function(cls, ...)
        return cls.new(...)
    end,
   })

function Creature:whoami()
    return "I am a Creature"
end


Player = getmetatable(setmetatable({}, Creature))
print(Player:whoami())

I am a Creature

Also can anyone point me to a few decent tutorials on the subject

 

[Mkalo]

I remember having a hard time learning this, the tutorials overall are pretty hard to understand, so you have to do alot of experiments to learn it yourself.

However tutorials in lua-users wiki are probably the ones you should look:
http://lua-users.org/wiki/ObjectOrientationTutorial
http://lua-users.org/wiki/InheritanceTutorial
http://lua-users.org/wiki/MetamethodsTutorial
http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaClassesWithMetatable
http://lua-users.org/wiki/SimpleLuaClasses
http://lua-users.org/wiki/MetatableEvents

Good reading