Chapter II ·
Idioms & deeper language
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Lesson 10 of 27
Method syntax: : vs .
You'll learn: Read OO-style Lua and know when
self is implicitly passed.
obj:method(args) is sugar for obj.method(obj, args) — the
colon implicitly threads obj as the first argument. Use :
when calling methods, and function T:foo(...) when declaring
them. The two forms below produce the same bytecode.
Output
idle
Hit Run to execute.
Try it:
Toggle Bytecode and compare the disassembly for the two
hello calls.