Op 2006-02-03, Ben Sizer schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> The main reason (at least for me) is that there's simply too much >> "magic" in it. Why does the expression left of the '.' get promoted to >> the first parameter? > > One of the reasons I like Lua is because it doesn't do this, instead > using the : operator to designate method-style calls. > > eg. > a:foo(b, c) -- looks up foo within a, and calls it with (a, b, c) as > parameters > a.foo(b, c) -- looks up foo within a, and calls it with (b,c) as > parameters > > This means there doesn't need to be a distinction between methods and > functions, just a different operator to treat a function as if it was a > method.
That is nice. I wonder if the following is possible in Lua: fun = a:foo fun(b, c) with the same effect as: a:foo(b, c) -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
