Re: RES: Cryptic OOP syntax

[PA <petite.abeille@...>]

On Jan 31, 2005, at 20:10, André de Leiradella wrote:

> It's not a proposal, just a common syntax.

Evil I say! :P

> I'd like too to have multiple
> constructors in Lua as it is dynamic typed (it get's too confusing
> inside the only constructor to compare all possible combinations of
> arguments to decide how to instantiate the object).

You can use different factory method names:

b = B.new( 'me' )
b = B.newWithNumber( 1 )
b = B.newWithBoolean( true )

etc... etc...

The main point being _not_ to introduce any unnecessary new 'new' 
keyword as you can achieve the exact same effect with a factory method. 
One less thing for your user to remember :))


Cheers

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