Re: Colon notation in object-oriented programming

[Peter Aronoff <telemachus@...>]

Petri Häkkinen <petrih3@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 5, 2017, at 1:32 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> > io.open("results.txt","w"):write(table.concat(results,"\n")):close()
> > 
> > Without colon notation, how far can we get?
> 
> If there we no implicit self and no ':' sugar this would be written
> something like this:
> 
> local file = io.open("results.txt", "w")
> io.write(file, table.concat(results, "\n"))
> io.close(file)

For what it’s worth, as someone who came to Lua without much OO experience,
I do exactly this now. I find procedural (or imperative) style far clearer.

P

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