dcsex.class
Return a table object (obj) that emulates properties of a class.
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If the table defines an entry “_init” that is a function, __init will be run when new instances are created. A new instance of obj can be created by calling newobj = obj(). Multiple inheritance is not tracked, thus this emulates java like inhertiance where there is single inheritance but allows for multiple interfaces to be inherited. Since all data is shallow copied all class instances must create their instances variables in their __init(). Thus if a class inherits from multiple classes its __init much call each base class’s __init function, similar to python 2.0 classes. All methods and instance data is visiable and are regular lua table entries. There is no concept of data protection like private, as in C++, so care must be taken to not modify a class’s date outside of its methods unless the data is intended to be public. A convention to identify private data and methods is to prefix these field names with ‘’.