Roblox Lua Pairs

So i finally decided to truly learn lua and im a little bit confused.

Roblox lua pairs. Userdata newproxy bool addmetatable false creates a blank userdata. As atsiffiejoe mentions in the comments this can be simplified back into a for loop by replacing the pairs call with its default return value for tables. Brian burton walks through the basics of using lua. This function is a stateless iterator it will not retain any information about the last iteration in the memory.

Posted december 15 2011. In this series dr. Function table pairs table t returns an iterator function the passed table t and nil so that the. In part 13 we learn about pairs and ipairs also known as generic for loop.

Additionally to avoid all metamethods use the. The next method and the table itself. Local next next local k nexttab while k nil do tabk nil k nexttab k end edit. Adding key value pairs.

So it is slightly faster but the difference is so minuscule that you shouldnt prefer one over the other. Pairs vs ipairs by marcus december 15 2011 in programming. Reply to this topic. Unlike standard lua 51 robloxs lua cannot load the binary version of lua using loadstring.

Type the name of the dictionary followed by the name of the key in brackets. For instance adding players to a dictionary when they join the game and then starting them off with 0 points. Next is another iterator function pairs actually calla this function every iteration. For a faster version that ignores the pairs metamethod.

Marcus 15 marcus 15 members. Youll often need to add key value pairs to an existing dictionary.