Defold 1.8.1 has been released

[Pawel]

Whaaat? How can we then call any Teal code from script so that it’s type-checked? I did as it is written in the teal extensions readme. No posibility? What’s the advantage then?

[AGulev]

Yes, type checking happening only in tl files. But you can avoid using Lua using this trick:

1. Create my.*_script
2. Create my.lua (it works with Teal as well)
3. in lua file:

local function init(self)
end

local function on_message(self, message_id, message, sender)

end

local function on_input(self, action_id, action)
   
end

local function update(self, dt)
   
end

return function()
    _G.init = init
    _G.on_message = on_message
    _G.on_input = on_input
    _G.update = update
-- ...etc
end

4. in script file: require(“my”)()

5. Keep script file a one-liner + maybe some go.properties()

[Pawel]

Thank you!

What is this annotation? (In this project there is no Teal-extension, but there is Lua Language Server) It’s in Lua module:

Beside I can simply in this case initialize it with string.find() result, so in only one line, but sometimes I want the value to be set by default at first and the change it (here also I can change it to default after operations fail to initialize it in some cases).

I’m just curious how it is treated in dynamically typed Lua.