How do I Simplify Connecting Colon Notation Module Methods to Events?

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Hi Everyone!

Does anyone know how to simplify this without changing the original declaration of the method in the module script to use dot notation?

blabla.Event:Connect(function()
	myModule:SayHello("World!")
end)
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myModule:SayHello("World!")

is just shorthand for

myModule.SayHello(myModule, "World!")

You need to pass myModule as the first argument, as the function would be expecting the module itself as the first argument, when specified using a colon. Typically, you’d only need to use colons when you’re creating OOP-style modules, where a colon would access a new instance created from the original module, and a dot accessing the original module.

If your module is not intended as OOP, you have no need to create functions with a colon; just use a dot.

local myModule = {}

function myModule.SayHello(name)
    print(string.format("Hello %s", name))
end

return myModule
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