What jumps out to me is the difference between a normal method and a
metamethod; the latter might not do sufficient validation, so you're
catching the exception from trying to invoke .gist. And that just happens
to do the right thing in your case; if you're getting a VMNull from an
implementation-i
I've got a weird one here... a line that looks like it does
nothing significant is needed for the code to work.
If the line below marked "The Mystery Line" is commented out,
you just get the error:
===SORRY!===
Cannot look up attributes in a VMNull type object
Augment::Util:
class Recompos
