What is the self keyword in Lua? - Roblox Studio

[@TerribleTonyShow]

this video sounds like philosophical when ever you say "what is self," great video

[@BRicey]

lol thanks hey you never know roblox dev teaches you life skills and knowledge

[@siddhapandeypanigrahi353]

Really helped me in object oriented coding lua course for understanding actual uses of collection service and how it's used in module script Thx Saw ur collection service vid too by the way

[@ImUkoo]

cool thx for letttis us know that u watch one of his videos

[@ImUkoo]

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[@seishinstudio1249]

collection service is one of the most useful services on roblox

[@iceyboi]

I legit thought "self" referred to the script or was another way of saying script.Parent but I never used this. This video was helpful but I haven't found a use for it yet though...

[@360sauce7]

PSX uses this method. self is like each individual pet in the game

[@pokemonmytomgo]

i have no idea what i just learned but thank you

[@execute214]

module:call() is the same thing as module.call(module) when you define a function with : it's called a method and it's first parameter will always be self function module:print() print(self) end module.print("Hello, world!") this code compiles

[@fabianemdi1]

Recently just learned about self, this is really good👍🏼

[@danielnolan8049]

Interesting, I didn't know you could put functions into tables, and call them like that. Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that's what's going on in the module example. Here's what I think the code in the module example is saying. function module.doSomething(...) -- defines and adds a function labeled doSomething into a table called module. function module:doSomething(...) -- should be equivalent to function module.doSomething(self, ...) a function that takes an argument called self as well as a potential list of additional arguments. module.doSomething(...) -- as far as I can tell this function call tells the interpreter to go to the table labeled module, so it can find, and run a function called doSomething with a list of arguments. module:doSomething(...) -- should be the same code as, module.doSomething(module, ...). The colon character appears to be short for put the string before the : into the list of arguments as the first argument. Again please correct me if I'm wrong.😅

[@BRicey]

basically right, but its not necessarily the string verbatum, its just the object (whether that be a table or an Instance (for Roblox stuff))

[@theboyoddee]

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[@siddhapandeypanigrahi353]

Lol

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[@anthonygaming0246]

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[@real_quandie]

wait ":" in module functions used for oop..? ive always used it no matter what is doing my module

[@JarOfPrickles]

I don't understand, but i'll understand it eventually

[@AlexTechie]

That's because the video isn't very good at explaining self. I'm sure he understands it, but doesn't know how to convey his understanding.

[@Czectly]

this made perfect sense to me thanks

[@purpIed]

Interesting video, thank you.

[@player9315]

So if I do a function in the module script that has : it would automatically set self? And the value of self is the argument that you passed in the function?

[@BRicey]

Close, but self would be set to the thing you are calling the function on

[@player9315]

@@BRicey so it’s good for some settings stuff?

[@Vytor_01]

how is no one talking about the colored subtitles? i mean, i didnt know it was possible

[@rc8s]

Yeah, KZbin lets you use different file formats for captions, and you can set the color and position of them. I’ve been experimenting with multiple ways to notate code, because coding videos are tricky to caption right. I haven’t color-coded all of his videos that I captioned, but the ones that I have I think work well!

[@Vytor_01]

@@rc8s you coded his captions? thats amazing dude!

[@rc8s]

@@Vytor_01 Yep! At the end you can see “-- Captions by rc8s --.” I’ve never seen coding videos captioned, so I thought it would be cool to do that and use colors. Quotation marks worked horribly. In the start I also would just not caption the code at all and instead put an ellipsis (…) at the end of whatever he says (like “Then we’re going to write… [His code shows on screen]”). Colors seem to work best so far, and since it got a comment, I’ll continue doing it.

[@CoolChris-vn8hz]

Is there ever any reason to call functions with a dot rather than a colon then?

[@BRicey]

Yes, if you don't need to use self (like a static function in other languages like java), then use a dot. Always use a dot when possible

[@dejo095]

@@BRicey you mean always use colon when possible, not dot

[@gamolacountryballs2293]

@@dejo095 no, just the opposite

[@karlmarx2704]

There is no self, only the people, silly

[@kokobroxd]

cool!

[@myAnxiousWorld]

Hi

[@MattVSNNL]

I kinda get it

[@qxxrd]

hey can you do a tutorial on ALL keywords in Roblox?

[@kpm25]

it's not a keyword but a default name...

[@BRicey]

in hindsight you're correct but for people looking it up and for the grammar of the title to work I just put it this way.

[@kpm25]

@@BRicey no worries, just for clarification, this confused me too.

[@JPCamitan]

How to make bow with arrow advanced with animations?

[@tohereknowswhen779]

u should be more a bit comprehensive

[@BRicey]

What do you mean?

[@tohereknowswhen779]

@@BRicey noo sorry wrong videoo lmaooo

[@tomsterbg8130]

As cool and useful as this may look like I really find the way of using self as just a bad way when you don't know how to name your variable. Even when I objectify my code so much that it's completely abstract I still see no reason to use self, it just worsens the readability. And the fact that you can easily fall in misleading problems with the colons just speaks for itself, this is not a good practice.