`.` and `\` in Moonscript map to `.` and `:` in Lua. In Lua, `foo.bar` is just syntactic sugar for `foo["bar"]`, a table lookup with a string key. In turn, `f

`.` and `\` in Moonscript map to `.` and `:` in Lua. In Lua, `foo.bar` is just syntactic sugar for `foo["bar"]`, a table lookup with a string key. In turn, `foo:bar(baz)` is syntactic sugar for `foo.bar(foo, baz)`. It is not uncommon to mix things up, and put a dot instead of the column. IIRC, Leafo used the backslash instead because it is more distinct, visually. Users\create name: @params.username is thus equivalent to Users.create( Users, name: @params.username ) (adding parens for maximum clarity).