• WolfLink@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    In Python, self is not a keyword, it’s a conventional variable name. You can replace all instances of “self” with “this” and your code will work the same.

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        17 hours ago

        Kinda.

        Lua defines it implicitly only when you use the

        function foo:bar(a, b, c) -- note the colon
        

        syntactic sugar, which gets translated to

        function foo.bar(self, a, b, c) -- note the period
        

        In all cases, self is a regular variable name. You can even redeclare a new local with that name even when the old one is in scope.

        Edit: some typos