Lua Quick Start Guide

Creating a module

A module is just a normal Lua table; a module file is a Lua file which returns a table. For us, this means returning an anonymous table. We are going to create a new file, character.lua, and declare a character class in this file. The definition of the character class is as follows:

-- It's important that the table retuned be local!local character = {}character.health = 20character.strength = 5character.name = ""character.new = function (self, object)     object = object or {} -- Use provided table, or create new one    local provided = ""    if type(object) == "string" then        provided = object        object = {}    end    setmetatable(object, self) -- Assign meta table    self.__index = self    if provided ~= "" then        object.name = provided    end return ...