going through chapter 28 of https://www.lua.org/pil

User-defined C data.

I think I have some understanding of the Lua stack now. It's a different
kind of verbose, error-prone syntax than Mu that requires me to play
computer in my head. But I don't fully grok metatables yet. At least not
well enough to grok everything that's going on in lcurses/ext.

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@@ -11,3 +11,18 @@ lua_State:
 
 Lua's stack vs globals: https://lucasklassmann.com/blog/2019-02-02-how-to-embeddeding-lua-in-c/#exposing-a-simple-variable
 More info on the stack: https://www.lua.org/pil/24.2.html
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+
+
+# T[k] = v
+
+## Approach 1:
+  -- initial { ... T ... }
+  push k
+  push v
+  settable index(T)
+  -- final { ... T ... }
+
+## Approach 2 (if k is a string):
+  push v
+  setfield index(T), k