Die Martin Die

Supposotory*

Derp, I misread.

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

if debug.getinfo(1).what == "main" then
  -- ...
end

Not that you’ll ever use it. No, seriously.

Edit: actually, they are not quite equivalent. This code just checks whether we are outside any function, not necessarily in the main file (i.e. not in a module). I don’t think there’s an equivalent to Python’s __name__ in stock Lua.

Fennec here (Firefox with less telemetry, and not enabled by default)

fprintf(stdout, "%c", '\012');

s/year/week/

En-eh hinks (with heavy Spanish accent)

Capital letters are bigger, thus they use bigger bytes and use too much disk space and memory. That’s why most programming languages use lowercase, and why the most common loop variable is i.

You hope! Laws will still apply to us peasants

It will probably work. Because, you know, money.

Phony Stark*