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

[Thomas Jericke <tjericke@...>]

Am 31.07.2018 um 11:00 schrieb 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.

In the case you don't need that local variable, isn't that an advantage?
--
Thomas