Designing strategies

AOFlagger flagging strategies are written in the Lua language. Lua is quite a simple language, and if you know Python, Lua will feel quite familiar. Most of its syntax should be evident when inspecting some of the example strategies. In Lua, comments start with two dashes “--“, if and for blocks end with a end statement, and class methods can be called with either

object.method(object, parameter1, parameter2)

or

object:method(parameter1, parameter2)

The following sections describe the details:

• Hello world
  • Defining options
• Execute and options reference
• Example script
• Option list
• Functions
  • Summary
  • Detailed descriptions
• Data class
  • Method summary
  • Detailed descriptions