Re: Say No to global-by-default (summary of the discussion)

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2018-07-31 8:55 GMT+02:00 Sergey Zakharchenko <doublef.mobile@gmail.com>:
> Dirk,
>
>> The only [1] place in Lua where syntax sugar saves you one statement is
>
> How about
>
> a():b()
>
> vs
>
> local dummy=a();dummy.b(dummy) ?

Thanks. I forgot about that one. But it is not quite equivalent;
(object_valued_expression):method(...) saves you a named local but
then you don't have that named local.