Re: Lua 5.1.1 has been frozen

[Andreas Stenius <kaos@...>]

Javier Guerra skrev:
> On Tuesday 13 June 2006 10:06 am, Andreas Stenius wrote:
> > 2. Even I work on building some kind of OO structure in lua, and
> >     came across the desire to some new syntactic sugar:
>
> could you show a sample code where this could be useful?

class MyTest
{
	class.public
	{
		foo = function( ... ) end;
		bar = function() end;
	};

	class.private
	{
		bonk = 5;

		-- my last note for tbl constr.
		-- ouch, should work for keyword 'function' too..
		function phobo( ... ) end;
	}
}

would be the same as:

MyTest = class
{
	... the same

	class.private
	{
		bonk = 5;
		phobo = function( ... ) end;
	}
}

Oh, and while I'm at it.. as it is, I'd have to add `self' as the
first argument to every function.. would also be nice to make the
needself arg (in the impl) to be true if a function is declared as

foo = function:( ... )  or something like that... maybe, just thought of it.


I think most of this is feasible, maybe by redesigning the way the 
function's syntactic sugar work to be more generic for a assignment expr.

//Andreas