Object Prototypes
In Lua, object-oriented programming is achieved using prototypal inheritance, since Lua does not have the concept of a class. Prototypal inheritance simply means that objects …
In Lua, object-oriented programming is achieved using prototypal inheritance, since Lua does not have the concept of a class. Prototypal inheritance simply means that objects …
Table access [[metamethods (Lua)]] provide a mechanism for handling table lookup using the __index
metamethod and writes to missing keys, using the __newindex
metamethod. They …
In Lua, since everything is a tables, metatables are a paradigm that lets you change the behaviour of a table, using another table. For example …
Coroutines in Lua are related to [[Generators (Python)]]. They allow a function to be written to return intermittantly using the yield()
function call on the …