Re: Function statement name syntax in Lua

On 2026-01-31 13:06, bil til wrote:
>>     function t:a() return self end -- What are those "s" "e" "l" "f" ?
> ... maybe this needs an "additional learning step" for new Lua programmers.
>
> But I think especially for meta-tabels (typically e. g. some C
> programmed userdata) this is super-nice and very intuitive.
>
> (e. g. file f..., f:write(...) instead of file.write( f, ...) ).
Hello Bil,

I'm talking that ":" sugar in function definition considered harmful.
In function _definition_. Not in function call.

Let me create more ugly example:

   self = {}
   function self:self() return self end
   print(self:self())

What "self" is returned here and _why_?

Versus

   self = { self = function(self) return self end }
   print(self:self())

Good language requires little knowledge to understand.

-- Martin

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