Re: Calling object functions using dot instead of colon?

. operator is basically just for scope.

: operator is ALWAYS for object instances and is a simple syntactic shortcut
for .<method>( self, ... ).

The Lua book details this all...you might want to check it out at
www.lua.org


On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Kristoffer Danielsson <
[email protected]> wrote:

>  Stumbled upon this:
>
> http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/06/introducing-android-scripting.html
>
> Looking at the images, it seems a dot (".") is used instead of a colon
> (":") when calling functions inside an object/module?
>
> How do you accomplish this? I'm used to colon:
>
> myObject:foo()
> vs
> myObject.bar() <--?
>
> Thanks
>
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