+Prototype Oriented Programming with Lua
+
+
A straight forward prototype-based object system, and a selection of +useful objects built on it.
+ +This is a collection of light-weight libraries for Lua 5.1 (including +LuaJIT), 5.2 and 5.3 written in pure Lua.
+ +Each of the modules in this package returns a table with an empty
+prototype object in the prototype field, and often a selection of
+module functions not related to a specific instance. That is, when
+you require one of these modules, you get a conventional table of
+functions plus an empty object of some sort:
local object = require "std.prototype.object"
+for k, v in pairs (object) do print (k, type (v)) end
+--> prototype table
+--> type function
+In this case, a module function called type which looks up the
+_type field in any prototype's metatable, and an empty Object:
print (object.prototype)
+--> Object {}
+You can instantiate additional copies of a prototype by calling it with +a table of specialised attributes:
+ +print (object.prototype { myattribute = "my value" })
+--> Object {myattribute=my value}
+As a convenience, calling the module itself passes the argument table
+through to that module's prototype, although its faster to save an
+empty instance of the prototype in a local and use that:
print (object { 1, 2, foo = "bar" })
+--> Object {1, 2; foo=bar}
+
+local Object = object.prototype
+print (Object { "Woo!" })
+--> Object {Woo!}
+LICENSE
+ +The code is copyright by its respective authors, and released under the +MIT license (the same license as Lua itself). There is no warranty.
+ + + +Modules
+| std.prototype | +Module table. | +
| std.prototype.container | +Container Prototype. | +
| std.prototype.object | +Object Prototype. | +
| std.prototype.set | +Set Prototype. | +
| std.prototype.strbuf | +StrBuf Prototype. | +
| std.prototype.trie | +Trie Prototype. | +