table.insert oddity

[Android Data]

Hello. I am trying to add superpowers from Heroes for the heck of it. Part of my design is to have a table of all the super powers stored at the server-side. This table is called "supernaturalpowers".

The problem now is that I have one lua file per power, and these define the power. After the power object has been created and defined, I want to use table:insert to add the newly created object to the aforementioned list. Except it isn't working, and the errors it's spitting out are quite odd.

autorun/server/heroes_powers.lua

//base power class
function Power:Initialize()
	self.name = "base";
	self.fullname = "Base Power Class";
	self.desc = "";
	self.suppressed = false; //power is suppressed
end
function Power:Give()
end
function Power:Take()
end

function Power:Think()
end
function Power:PlayerDeath(victim, weapon, killer)
end
function Power:Suppress()
end

//loading powers
supernaturalpowers = {};

powers/power_regeneration.lua

function Power:Initialize()
	self.name = "regeneration";
	self.fullname = "Rapid cellular regeneration";
	self.desc = "Those with rapid cellular regeneration will have buffed health. Health will slowly regenerate over time, and the user cannot be killed ordinarily.";
	self.suppressed = false; //power is suppressed
	self.killed = false; //player was killed ( 'revive' soon)
end

function Power:Think()
	if(suppressed) then
		return;
	end

	...	

	self.nextThink = CurTime() + 2;
end

...

table.insert(supernaturalpowers, Power); //<- oops?

When using the above code, I get an error that the 1st argument of table.insert has to be a number, but I'm specifying a table instead. When I try to use:

supernaturalpowers.insert(supernaturalpowers.Count() + 1, Power);

I get an error that the function is not defined.

I have done Msg(supernaturalpowers) and confirmed that it is indeed sending me a table. But for some reason, it won't allow me to insert the power to it.

On an unrelated note, is my design correct? I wish to make it so powers can be added and removed seamlessly.

[Lexic]

uh.
table.insert(supernaturalpowers,Power) should work fine, because it does here.

[Gbps]

Consider using metatables as an alternative, then creating a new power by using setmetatable({},Power) and editing it there. Then you table.insert it and it should work fine.