Re: Lua in Unity3D / Mono

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Johnson Lin <arch.jslin@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/6/12 Tim Mensch <tim-lua-l@bitgems.com>:
>> On 6/11/2012 4:37 AM, Alexander Gladysh wrote:
>>>
>>> Anyone has Lua as a Unity3D plugin for Windows and OS X?
>>
>>
>> ShiVa 3D is a similar game engine to Unity, only it uses Lua as its
>> scripting language. It supports "Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iPhone, Android,
>> BlackBerry, Palm, Wii and the iPad."
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> [1] http://stonetrip.com/
>>
>
> Just FYI, its Lua environment has some different ... say conventions
> for certain (minor) things. Like the usage of "this" keyword. I am not
> sure if they really re-implemented something to introduce this new
> keyword, or just replaced "self", which can be considered as a syntax
> sugar when using colon invocation, with "this".
>
> (However a preliminary search found out that "this" is used without
> colon-style function defs, well.)

Erm. This means that I would not code for this... thing, unless I get
paid some _very_ good money for that.

Alexander.