Re: From Lua to Python?

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

On 13-Jul-17 15:48, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
> Actually OO is essential tool for organizing large code bases. I am
> not talking about inheritance and all - but just the ability to
> organize your code into objects of different types. Remember objects
> carry state.

If you take away inheritance, I do not think you can call it "OO" 
anymore (at least not as the term is commonly defined).

> I find that even with Lua, when I am exposing an API - I need to make
> it OO for the user else user has to manage state and call functions
> with potentially large number of arguments which just doesn't make
> sense.

You can easily do encapsulation in Lua, for example using modules as 
'objects' with private functions/data and a public API. Of course 
polymorphism is there by default.

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  Enrico