Any way to access local variables inside a Module?

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Modules are very useful, however, accessing the variables declared within modules becomes quite verbose, for example, this is in a Module:

local Module = {a = 1, b = 2, c = 3}

local d = 4
local e = 5
local f = 6

return Module

… I have to reference variables a, b, c as print(Module.a, Module.b, Module.c).

At the same time, I cannot access local variables d, e, f…

It becomes very wordy to always put Module. in front of each variable…

Any way to make this easier?

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Sadly, as far as I know, there is no way to do what you are talking about unless you return those too.

local Module = {a = 1, b = 2, c = 3}

local d = 4
local e = 5
local f = 6

return Module, d, e, f

Other than that, to make it less wordy, you could just change the table name to something easy

local t = {a = 1, b = 2, c = 3}

local t.d = 4
local t.e = 5
local t.f = 6

return t
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Won’t work, will show error: Module code did not return exactly one value

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oh, didn’t know modules did that until now, so no, it is impossible without putting it in the table.

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