Help with OOP

[Sir_Silver]

Just a small note:

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item = {}
item.__index = item

function item:new(id)
   local item_object = setmetatable({}, item)

   return item_object
end

Seems that "item.__index = item" doesn't do anything at all.

You might want to check that again, the example I wrote works fine. You might have a point with separating the "interface" as you call it so that an object doesn't have the new method, but as it stands the code works exactly as intended lol.

[nyenye]

It's the same thing, a table with a property __index with value item, so yes it's the same in both cases.