Need voice of experience.

[Trappingnoobs]

I use an OOP implementation I made

I now understand why I don't understand OOP with LUA

What do you mean?

[schael]

I mean that it means Lua is not an OO language . Isn't it ?

[Trappingnoobs]

I mean that it means Lua is not an OO language . Isn't it ?

No, it's not, I don't think; but it's easy to implement, and much easier to code with it (Well, the majority of people, including me, think that).

Middleclass is probably the most-used one here, but I'm not fussed with it or most of the other implementations; since they only, as far as I know (I could be wrong so don't hold me to this), allow single inheritance, eg

Class1
Class2
Subclass inherits from Class1

Subclass can't inherit from both classes, only one, and nothing can inherit from it.

I made my own which basically is:

Class "ClassName" {Properties}
Class "InheritsfromClassName" ( {Properties}, {ClassName} )

Looks wierd, but you're basically passing either one or two tables in.

And you can inherit from as many as you like, and you can inherit from classes that have already inherited from other classes, just like a real OOP language.

So it's not hard to implement; and it can save you a lot of time.

[schael]

Middleclass is a part of PÄSSION right ? I will not use it for my first project but I will learn more about.

[bartbes]

No, middleclass is separate now.

And, btw, Trappingnoobs, you have observed wrong, I know for a fact that SECS has a version with multiple inheritance, and Slither does it by default too.

[Trappingnoobs]

No, middleclass is separate now.

And, btw, Trappingnoobs, you have observed wrong, I know for a fact that SECS has a version with multiple inheritance, and Slither does it by default too.

Can you have classes that inherit from classes that inherit from other classes?

What about default values?

Edit

I can't use SECS because I'm 14 and it wouldn't end up good for me if my parents saw that on my computer. I doubt they'd beleive it's to do with programming :L

[bartbes]

..., seriously? I have yet to find a class system that doesn't do that..

[Kadoba]

Honestly, from what I've seen it's better to avoid OOP altogether when you first start out in Lua. Lua takes a different mindset than OOP languages and 90% of the time you can get by with simple metatables. OOP is built IN Lua rather than INTO Lua and a lot of people just can't seem to get around that.

[BlackBulletIV]

I can't use SECS because I'm 14 and it wouldn't end up good for me if my parents saw that on my computer. I doubt they'd beleive it's to do with programming :L

Ah ha! Yeah, I'm definitely not a supporter of suggestive library names, they just get in the way.

[slime]

You can just rename it, you know.