OOP Object Property Casing

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How should the casing be for OOP objects?

For example

function Car.new()
local self = {}
self.speed = 5
return self
end

or

function Car.new()
local self = {}
self.Speed = 5
return self
end
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Its a personal preference thing. I generally use UpperCamelCase because everything on roblox is in that format and I value constancy.

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For lua OOP in general, i would recommend checking out chapter 16 of the lua pil, but in general, instantiators for OOP in lua tend to look something like this

local a = {}
a.__index = a

function a.new()
    local self = {}
   return setmetatable(self,a)
end
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Do you mean the casing for the word “Speed”, it really does not matter use what you find most readable, most programmers tend to seperate every new word in a variable name by a capital letter though for example:

local RealTime -- UpperCamelCase
-- or some would do it like this
local realTime --lowerCamelCase
--or 
local Real_Time
--it really is whatever you like the most and is readable 
--just ensure you use meaningful variable names
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Expanding upon this, Lua programmers tend to prefer loweCamelCase since it meshes nicely with the standard library (which is all lowercase) & the style guide roblox is intending to move towards for internal code advises lowerCamelCase (or camelCase) for member values & functions (properties & methods).

But, in the end, it’s whatever the author prefers.

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I guess your right but as long you use meaningful variable names you should be good, I tend to use UpperCamelCase though.

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Yes, I edited my message to make my intent more clear; it’s whatever the author of the code is most comfortable with that matters most.

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