On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Rena
<hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:56 PM, phil anc <
philanc@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...And I don't want to wrap my head every time around metatables and __index
> :-) so I came up with the following 'class' definition:
>
define objects:
Of course, you are right, this is not so difficult. This is why I put a smiley in my post! My point is rather that when I manipulate a lot of small, lightweight classes, I don't want to repeat the kind of thing below each time I create a new class:
return setmetatable(self, {__index=myObjectMethod})
The class() object I described just encapsulates this stuff and allows to write:
-- create a new class
myObject = class()
-- define methods (no need for a myObjectMethod table here)
function myObject:print_xyz() . . . end
-- then, to create an instance
foo = myObject{x=1, y=2, z=3}
So, just a little less boilerplate to repeat for each class.