Paste: noob lua question

run: lua deque.lua

fails with:

lua: deque.lua:38: attempt to call method 'push_front' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
	deque.lua:38: in main chunk
	[C]: ?

--START--


Deque = {}

function Deque:new ()
    return {first = 0, last = -1}
end

function Deque:push_front (value)
    local first = self.first - 1
    self.first = first
    self[first] = value
end

function Deque:pop_front ()
    local first = self.first
    if first > self.last then error("list is empty") end
    local value = self[first]
    self[first] = nil -- to allow garbage collection
    self.first = first + 1
    return value
end

--fails...
local dee = Deque:new()
dee:push_front(5)
print(dee:pop_front())


--[[ this works:
local d = Deque.new()
Deque.push_front(d,5)
print(Deque.pop_front(d))
]]--