Question: is there a way to invoke method wihout "passing" this?

[al1-ce]

It'd be easier to explain in example:

let a = require("a");
a.f();
new a.f();
a.b.f();
new a.b.f();

let b = { f() {}, c: { f(){} } };
b.f();
new b.f();
b.c.f();
new b.c.f();

Would generate:

local a = require("a")
a:f() -- a.f()
a.f() -- new a.f()
(function()
    local __tmp = a.b
    return __tmp:f()
end)() -- a.b.f()
a.b.f() -- new a.b.f()

local b = {
    f = function()
    end,
    c = {
        f = function()
        end
    }
}
b:f() -- b.f()
b.f() -- new b.f()
(function()
    local __tmp = b.c
    return __tmp:f()
end)() -- b.c.f()
b.c.f() -- new b.c.f()

My question is - is there a way to get output of a.f() without prepending new?

[al1-ce]

So, still, what'd be syntax difference between calls that pass this and ones that do not? For example if I'd use external library there's some functions that do obj:method() and others obj.func(). How should I make it generate one or the other?

[xiangnanscu]

It's hard to take care of both, so when you want obj.func(), you write const {func: obj_func}=obj first and then obj_func()

[al1-ce]

I guess that would work, kinda would be like bindings in other languages which is possible to generate

[al1-ce]

I was thinking about it and what about being able to define non-class symbols? Code has to go through cli anyway so something like js2lua --non-class=api,other,thing file.js > file.lua would possibly work

[xiangnanscu]

I add an option useColonOnMethod, done by b78d0aad41ec9ed8903e274089bdad1e0acaaa7e