Re: Perferred OO System? Alternatives to even OO?

[Damian Stewart <damian@...>]

Zed A. Shaw wrote:
> 1) What's people's favored OO system for Lua and the advantages/disadvantages?

Well, I use Julien Patte's YACI (with my bugfix applied :-), available at

http://lua-users.org/wiki/YetAnotherClassImplementation

See the bottom of the page for the bugfix.

Good: you don't have to mess around with all that ugly setmetatable 
stuff, you get a magic constructor method (init()), and you get nice 
tidy access to superclass methods if you want to overload something.

Bad: *all* variables are protected a la C++, ie shared with all lower 
levels of the inheritance tree. If your superclass has a variable called 
state, you cannot have a subclass that also has a variable called state.

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