Simpler way to call a function in a same table?

Question

I wonder if there's a simpler way to call a function or set variable of the same table instead of writing the table name.

For example, Is there a simpler way to call MyClass.test() function from MyClass.setup() in my below example code?

local MyClass = {}

function MyClass.test()
  print("Hello")
end

function MyClass.setup()
  MyClass.test()
end

MyClass.setup()

Answer 1

If you use : to call the functions instead of ., Lua implicitly inserts a reference to the table itself as the first argument (similar to the this pointer is some object-oriented languages). Then you can say self:test() to get rid of the name dependence.

local MyClass = {
    test = function(self)
        print("Hello")
    end,
    setup = function(self)
        self:test()
    end
}

MyClass:setup()