And, or, How do I use it in parameters?

[Jayblox190 (harper)]

How would I go about using “and” and “or” inside parameters like this?
When does “or” change the value?
Why is there an “and”? Is this because there are two parameters?

[Kaid3n22 (Kaiden)]

To explain (not sure if I can explain well), directory is the condition for it to lead to “/”…directory. If directory is nil or false, it will lead to “” example:

local words = 2

local str = "word" ..(words > 1 and "s" or "")

in this case, it will be “words”, but if the variable words is 1 or less, it will be “word”.

[dthecoolest]

It’s known as Lua short-circuit or short-cut evaluations, or just a short-cut for if statements

What is the use of variables with multiple operators?

Kinda, it will set the value to either true or false depending on the results of the equality operator. It’s a short cut for local IsTable if type(value) == "table" then IsTable = true else IsTable = false end For the second one it’s also a shortcut because lua does read the and evaluate the code left to right and does what is known as short-cut evaluation or short circuit evaluation isTable and value[i] or value First it checks isTable, if it is true it will go on to index the tab…

[Jayblox190 (harper)]

Thank you two so much! I had to give a solution to someone, so sorry.
But you two explained it very well. Thanks