Re: Why a : (colon) operator?

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Subject: Re: Why a : (colon) operator?
From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:17:44 -0300

> I wonder why a new ':' operator was added?

To provide support for object-oriented programming.
See our paper on the evolution of Lua, section 5.2:
	http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/doc/hopl.pdf
 
--lhf

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