title: Is there a 'this' type of selector in Lua like there is in jQuery?
body: <p>I'm trying to create a constructor.</p>
  <pre><code>DialogData_Constructor = {
    
      name = &quot;&quot;, id = &quot;&quot;, has_blocked = false, blocked_by = false, messages = { }, time_stamps = { },
      
      New = function()
          local tab = {}
          for i, v in pairs(DialogData_Constructor) do
              tab[i] = v
          end
          return tab
      end,
  
      AddNewMessage = function( message, time_stamp )
          table.insert ( .messages, message ) -- how do I insert new data into this table?
          table.insert ( .time_stamps, time_stamp)
      end
  }
  </code></pre>
  <p>So my question is, how do you identify or select the table in AddNewMessage -function?</p>