Re: Function definitions in table constructors

[Mark Hamburg <mhamburg@...>]

on 2/21/08 1:39 PM, Duncan Cross at duncan.cross@gmail.com wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Alex Davies <alex.mania@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> It's quite an easy change to the parser, see:
>>  http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-01/msg00525.html
>> 
>>  The patch is a little different though - for my oo system I prefer to have
>>  implicit selfs inside table functions,
> 
> Perhaps the best solution would be to combine this with a second,
> independent change that takes:
> 
>    function :anonmethod(a,b,c)
>       ...
>    end
> 
> as syntactic sugar for:
> 
>    anonmethod = function(self,a,b,c)
>       ...
>    end
> 
> so table-constructor methods have a lightweight syntax.

But to really make it pay off one needs some way to also remove the need for
a comma after the end.

Mark