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<title>Prototype Functions</title>⤶
<cat>Dev.Lua</cat>
A proto is a <page>function</page> prototype that has been described in code but not initialized as a callable object.
You can browse its bytecode and debug information with the jit.util functions, but it cannot be executed.
A proto has the same relationship with a function as classes have with its objects in OOP languages: a class can have multiple object instances, but objects are only of single class type. In the same way, protos can have multiple function instances but there is only a single proto describing those instances.
See <page>jit.util.funck</page> for an example.