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 <d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com> 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 <s7ep...@protonmail.com> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > To unsubscribe, go to: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l