Loonar – a object-oriented framework for lua

loonar class-based object system for Lua 5.1, like Moose for Perl 5 or Prototype, MooTools for JavaScript.

Overview

It provides:

• Modern object model (like CLOS, Python, Ruby)
  • Everything is object, including primitive types like function, string, number….
  • Classes are also objects. Every class is an instance of the class identified as class.
  • table is the base class. It is also identified as object. (table == object)
  • Metaclass protocol
• Multiple inheritance
• Integrated classes, including primitive types like boolean, number, string, table, function
• Various iterator utilities like map, filter, reduce
• Some functional programming helpers

table of content

• ObjectOrientation
• GenericMethod
• OperatorOverloading
• LoonarSpec