Metatable

A metatable is the section of a database or other data holding structure that is designated to hold data that will act as source code or metadata. In most cases, specific software has been written to read the data from the metatables and perform different actions depending on the data it finds.

gollark: It's not down, syl.
gollark: I IKR, right?
gollark: Well, it's not *recursing*, but heavpoot just sent a name which made it send another name.
gollark: Hmm. The bridge seems to have hit ratelimits.
gollark: So any issues will at least be finite.
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