Re: Did they mean "." or ":"?

[Christopher Eykamp <chris@...>]

In the example I gave, yes, your test would work.  But 
bot:setAngleToOtherBot(bot2) would fail that test.

On 2/16/2010 4:11 PM, Wesley Smith wrote:
> > Is there a way from C++ to figure out if a function was called using "." as
> > opposed to ":"?
> >      
> What you should be asking instead is how to tell if the object is the
> first argument in C++ since bot.setAngle(bot, angle) is equivalent to
> bot:setAngle(angle).  If bot is a userdata that you grab the pointer
> to, then the check should be trivial.
>
> wes
>