parki0 / luacolonsuntaxsugar

LuaColonSuntaxSugar

Allows to use colon suntax with tables.

Quick Look

require 'tab'
a = tab{3,2,1}
a:sort() -- {1,2,3}

If table has a metatable already it will raise an error.

b = setmetatable({1,2,3,4},{__index = a})
tab(b) -- Raises an error.

Could be used to already exist table too.

a = {3,2,1}
tab(a)
a:sort() -- {1,2,3}

To use functions this way they are need to be defined like that:

function table.test()
	print("Hello World.")
end

Returns is table has the tab metatable.

a = tab{1,2,3}
print(isTab(a)) -- true

New tables inside the table will has the metatable too

a = tab{1,2,3}
a[4] = {4,5,6}
print(isTab(a[4])) -- true 

TODO

• Correct my english
• make it variadic

License

Distributed under the MIT license.