// hide metatable from Lua getmetatable()
    lua_pushvalue(L, methods);
    set(L, metatable, "__metatable");

    lua_pushvalue(L, methods);
    set(L, metatable, "__index");

///////adding this should work
    lua_pushvalue(L, methods);
    set(L, metatable, "__newindex");
//////////
    lua_pushcfunction(L, tostring_T);
    set(L, metatable, "__tostring");

    lua_pushcfunction(L, gc_T);
    set(L, metatable, "__gc");