How to self-reference table during initialization

Question

Is there a shorter way to do this:

local thisismytable = {
    non = sequitur
}
thisismytable.whatismytable = thisismytable

Any help would be appreciated. I don't want to re-create pre-existing functionality.

Answer 1

No.

If you can stand the difference between these two expressions thisismytable:whatismytable() instead of thisismytable.whatismytable, you could do:

local thisismytable = {
    non = sequitur,
    whatismytable = function (self) return self end
}

Testing:

print(thisismytable)
print(thisismytable:whatismytable())

More usage:

print(thisismytable:whatismytable().non)