Re: Colon notation in object-oriented programming

[Peter Aronoff <telemachus@...>]

Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> Have either of you adherents of `io.write(file, table.concat(results,
> "\n"))`, one of whom claims to "do exactly this now", actually tried
> running that line of code? If not, you have missed the point of that
> example and in fact of my post.

I haven’t tried that exact line. I suppose I have missed the point of that
example and your post (in fact!). Sorry.

My point was simply that I prefer to use procedural style. I never use the
colon in Lua. (In point of fact, if we’re going to be precise, I nearly
never use any of the functions in Lua’s io table “raw”. I have a small
module of wrapper methods that I use for convenience. But the principle
remains the same: I avoid the colon and prefer to pass the filehandle into
the method.)

Out of curiosity, what was your point?

P

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