How does an object reference itself in Lua?

Question

C# has `this` and VB has `ME`. What is the Lua equivalent? I am trying to reference the parent of the script class in Roblox.

Accepted Answer

From the Lua documentation section 2.5.9, the self reference is usually `self`:

The colon syntax is used for defining methods, that is, functions that have an implicit extra parameter `self`. Thus, the statement

```
function t.a.b.c:f (params) body end
```

is syntactic sugar for

```
t.a.b.c.f = function (self, params) body end
```

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