Re: [proposal] allow self-calls on keys of any type

[Spar <developspartv@...>]

The same reason why we have : in the first place.
Taking self twice might be complicated if the variable not on stack.

Picture this:

a.b.c.d.foo(a.b.c.d, ...)
you have to get the value d twice, when colon operator copies the left value to the stack again

On 23 Feb 2023, 03:22 +0300, Gé Weijers <ge@weijers.org>, wrote:

On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 8:18 AM tDwtp <tDwtp@web.de> wrote:

Hello, lua-l. (this time correct way around)

TL;DR: I do 2 proposals, this is the second.
I want to make `self:[key](...)` work.

Why not use:

self[key](self, ...)

I don't think there's enough of an advantage here to change the language.