metatables do not work! (1 Viewer)

[olegharput]

i can not set metatable in this code, i can not find the issue here. Need help
the Code:

local CLASS = {
   type = "CLASS",
   mt = {},
   newClass = function (self, type)
      local aaa = {}
      setmetatable(aaa, CLASS)
      for k, v in pairs(self) do
           aaa[k] = v
      end
      aaa.type = type
      aaa.super = self.type
      print("a new class named " .. type .. " created from the class " .. aaa.super)
      return aaa
   end,
   newInstance = function (self)
      local bbb = {}
      for k, v in pairs(self) do
     bbb[k] = v
      end
      print("a new instance for class " .. self.type .. " is created ")
      return bbb
   end,
   getTypeOfTheInstance = function (self)
      return self.type
   end
}

local PLAYER = CLASS:newClass("PLAYER")
local p1 = PLAYER:newInstance()
CLASS.mt.__metatable = "private"

print(getmetatable(CLASS))

return CLASS

and the output which is not true is: => Nil
i think it should be "private" but it is nil which means the metatable is not set.
What is the issue here?

 

[stetre]

At a first glance I see a few. First of all, the metatable must be, well, a table. Secondly, to set it you must use the setmetatable function. Finally, even if you could set the metatable by assigning something directly to the __metatable field, by writing CLASS.mt.__metatable you would set the metatable of CLASS.mt, not of CLASS.

 

[GavinW]

Change the first line from
local CLASS = {
to local CLASS; CLASS = {
The variable CLASS is not in scope when you use it in line 6.