Re: A matter of "style"...

[Steve Dekorte <steve@...>]

Mike Cuddy <mcuddy@fensende.com> wrote:
> Should I define the "member functions" inside the table declarations for
> the class...
> Or should I declare them outside of the declaration of the "Class" ...

I like the later for the reasons you mentioned. 
I also use a couple of other conventions to solve some name conflict 
problems
I've run across:

- instance variable names begin with an underscore and a lower case 
character. 

Example:

  Point = 
  {
    _x = 0,
    _y = 0,
    _z = 0,
  }

- method names begin with a lower case character and contain an underscore 
for 
  every argument the method accepts. 

Examples:

  function Point:x()
    return self._x
  end

  function Point:x_(x)
    self._x = x
    return self
  end

  function Point:x_y_z_(x, y, z)
    self._x = x
    self._y = y
    self._z = z
    return self
  end


This is to avoid name collisions between instance variables and methods of 
different types. In the example above there's an instance variable "_x", a 
getter method "x" and a setter method "x_" with no name collisions.

Steve