How to separate concerns?

[cfazzini]

Lately, I've been following this tutorial on Youtube. Everything was created in a single file called main.lua

There were things like player and enemy that seemed like they could have been moved out of main.lua.

I come from Ruby, and I like the fact that I can encapsulate logic into classes. Is there a pattern in love2d/Lua I should be looking at?

[grump]

This is a good starting point.

[erasio]

Short answer: Yes. You usually do though the tutorial probably didn't for simplicitys sake.

You can load any lua file or lua binding dlls with the "require" keyword.

If you just wanna include some code you can assume it's just appended to your main.lua file. Actual modules are written slightly differently. You can take a look at the libraries on the wiki and check out how they did it.

[hamberge]

It's nice to have one class-like table per file and to load that table into another file via require. Each required file can return its created table. One nice thing in lua is that if you require the same file in multiple different files, it returns a reference to the same table.

[TC1061]

You can load any lua file or lua binding dlls with the "require" keyword.

Don't lie!!! "require" isn't keyword! It's function!

[zorg]

You can load any lua file or lua binding dlls with the "require" keyword.

Don't lie!!! "require" isn't keyword! It's function!

It's also a keyword. See the manual: https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#2.1

The following keywords are reserved and cannot be used as names:
and break do else elseif
end false for function if
in local nil not or
repeat return then true until while

[Azhukar]

It's also a keyword. See the manual: https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#2.1

The following keywords are reserved and cannot be used as names:
and break do else elseif
end false for function if
in local nil not or
repeat return then true until while

'require' is not a reserved keyword.

[zorg]

'require' is not a reserved keyword.

Whoops, that's what i get for not reading what i copy :p