Indeed, you can use Lua tables within an object-oriented paradigm, or you can use them for other things as well. The power is in metatables, which allow you to

Indeed, you can use Lua tables within an object-oriented paradigm, or you can use them for other things as well. The power is in metatables, which allow you to alter the behaviours of table operations according to your needs. So in that sense, Lua allows table-oriented programming indeed.