aclass -- A lightweight and easy class system for Lua.

[admicos 4]

aclass is a lightweight and easy class system. Yes this is the third time i wrote that line. Anyways:

 

How to make a class:

Since i'm not that great at documentation, you might want to check the example afterwards.

Also, this relies on some Lua formatting tricks to stay readable-ish, so expect some weird syntax

To make a class, you use the class function as demonstrated here:

class "classname" { "optional parent class";
    variable = "hello";

    constructor = function(self, hello) --# Constructor is optional
        self:parentConstructor() --# Runs the parent classes constructor.

        self.hello = hello or "world" --# Example variable change.
    end;
  
    func = function(self)
        print(self.variable)
    end;
}

 

To use the class in your program, you use the new function as demonstrated here:

local myClass = new "classname"("constructor", "ar", "gs", 1234) --# While the constructor args are optional, the paranthesis are required
print(myClass.variable)
myClass:func()

 

Examples:

One example can be found here

 

Downloads:

Available though oppm as aclass

Direct Link: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenPrograms/admicos-Programs/master/aclass/aclass.lua

[admicos 4]

aclass has updated.

 

To load aclass, you now do 

local new, class = require("aclass")()

and it will return the new and class functions as locals instead of globals.

 

And printing the class variable will return "class: ClassName" instead of "table: 0xhexcode"