bestelbus22@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 21 days agoThe meaning of thislemmy.mlimagemessage-square71fedilinkarrow-up1539arrow-down115
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minus-squarejsomae@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8·21 days agoLua might have been a better choice, since self is special in lua.
minus-squareDie Martin Die@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-219 days agoKinda. Lua defines it implicitly only when you use the function foo:bar(a, b, c) -- note the colon syntactic sugar, which gets translated to function foo.bar(self, a, b, c) -- note the period In all cases, self is a regular variable name. You can even redeclare a new local with that name even when the old one is in scope. Edit: some typos
minus-squarejsomae@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·20 days agoI don’t see how what you said is inconsistent with me saying “self” is special in lua. Note that I did not say it’s a keyword.
Lua might have been a better choice, since
selfis special in lua.Kinda.
Lua defines it implicitly only when you use the
function foo:bar(a, b, c) -- note the colonsyntactic sugar, which gets translated to
function foo.bar(self, a, b, c) -- note the periodIn all cases,
selfis a regular variable name. You can even redeclare a new local with that name even when the old one is in scope.Edit: some typos
I don’t see how what you said is inconsistent with me saying “self” is special in lua. Note that I did not say it’s a keyword.
Derp, I misread.