Protoypes is a good pointer. Thanks!
I didn't find any automatisms, but I can do
someTable={}
setmetatable( someTable, { __index = table} )
and I am set to do someTable:insert(), someTable:concat(), etc. Neat.
Unfortunately it is not as easy for strings. There actually is an automatism
for strings in vanilla Lua, but it is turned off in Scribunto. [1]
Stephan
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#Metatables:"Note:
In Lua, all strings also share a single metatable, in which __index refers to
the string table. This metatable is not accessible in Scribunto, nor is the
referenced `string` table; the string table available to modules is a copy."
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On July 17, 2018 10:43 PM, Derk-Jan Hartman <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Maybe you missed that table.foo (and similarly string.foo) is the prototype
> for any someTable, which thus automatically has someTable.foo(). And that
> someTable:foo(args) is just syntactic sugar for someTable.foo( someTable,
> args ) ?
>
> It's one of those weird Lua quirks
>
> DJ
>
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 1:05 PM Stephan Gambke <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I have been playing with Scribunto recently and the one thing that struck
> > me as odd was that Lua has a number of methods like table.foo or
> > string.foo, but I did not find any factory module leveraging these methods
> > to provide someting more intuitive like someTable:foo or someString:foo.
> > Is it just not worth it or did I miss anything?
> >
> > Stephan
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