Re: RES: RES: idea of vision of blueprint of ROADMAP of Lua core

["Adam D. Moss" <adam@...>]

André de Leiradella wrote:
> I've done it myself, and I'm not happy. I've seen how others did it
> themselves, and I'm still not happy. Unless I'm missing something, I
> don't see a way to get rid of the self local that must prefix every
> property of the "class", making me write self.this and self.that. I
> don't see an elegant way to call inherited methods like
> super.something(...) or inherited something(...), but only hacks like
> self.super.something(self, ...) or SuperClassName.something(self, ...).

You can setfenv() the methods with a proxy table which looks
for globals first in the object's method+attribute table before
deferring to 'real' globals.

Personally I think that self.something() / self.super.something()
is clearer than 'something' implicitly coming out of the class's
namespace.  A standardised object mechanism isn't likely to address
such personal preferences.

--Adam
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