Le pregunta o noobs (nooby question)

[Mogex]

Is there any tutorial on the internet about colons in lua or love2d and their functionality, what they do, and how they can be utilized?

Link me if you got one.

Thanks.

[xXxMoNkEyMaNxXx]

A colon has one use, and one uselessness:

1. A colon can be used to separate the items in a table. (NOBODY does this though.)
2. A colon can be used in place of a white space character to mark the end of a line.

Whoops, that's a semicolon

A colon does this:

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table:function(...)

means the same as

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table.function(table,...)

When you define a function like

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function table:function(...)
end

it's the same as defining it like this:

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function table.function(self,...)
end

where the argument 'self' is literally available in the colon definition.

[ejmr]

The colon in Lua is a short-cut for writing methods for classes. So these two function definitions are equivalent:

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function class:method ()
    return self
end

class.method = function (self)
    return self
end

This page has some links that may help explain it as well:

http://lua-users.org/wiki/ObjectOrientedProgramming