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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lua might have been a better choice, since self is special in lua.

[–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Kinda.

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

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

Derp, I misread.