MiddleClass: fixed nonworking implicit instantiation (Object() instead of Object:new())

MiddleClass.lua

@@ -7,18 +7,19 @@
 local classes = setmetatable({}, {__mode = "k"})   -- weak table storing references to all declared classes
 
 -- The 'Object' class
-Object = { name = "Object",
+Object = { name = "Object" }
+
   -- creates a new instance
-  new = function(class, ...)
+Object.new = function(class, ...)
   assert(classes[class]~=nil, "Use class:new instead of class.new")
 
   local instance = setmetatable({ class = class }, class.__classDict) -- the class dictionary is the instance's metatable
   instance:initialize(...)
   return instance
-  end,
+end
 
 -- creates a subclass
-  subclass = function(superclass, name)
+Object.subclass = function(superclass, name)
   assert(classes[superclass]~=nil, "Use class:subclass instead of class.subclass")
   if type(name)~="string" then name = "Unnamed" end
 
@@ -48,7 +49,7 @@ Object = { name = "Object",
       rawset(classDict, methodName, method)
     end,
     __tostring = function() return ("class ".. name) end,
-      __call = theClass.new
+    __call = Object.new
   })
   -- instance methods go after the setmetatable, so we can use "super"
   theClass.initialize = function(instance,...) super.initialize(instance) end
@@ -56,12 +57,12 @@ Object = { name = "Object",
   classes[theClass]=theClass --registers the new class on the list of classes
 
   return theClass
-  end,
+end
 
   -- Mixin extension function - simulates very basically ruby's include(module)
   -- module is a lua table of functions. The functions will be copied to the class
   -- if present in the module, the included() method will be called
-  includes = function(class, module)
+Object.includes = function(class, module)
   assert(classes[class]~=nil, "Use class:includes instead of class.includes")
   for methodName,method in pairs(module) do
     if methodName ~="included" then class[methodName] = method end
@@ -69,7 +70,6 @@ Object = { name = "Object",
   if type(module.included)=="function" then module:included(class) end
 end
 
-}
 
 classes[Object]=Object -- adds Object to the list of classes