How to call the same function inside a function?

[O3_O2]

I want a function that can call itself inside of it.

I’ve tried a few things and nothing seems to work, it just returns nil on the output each time.
Heres an example:

local hello = function()
    print('hello')
    hello()
    return
end
hello()

[BuDeep]

If youre going for a recursive function, this code could help out. It will call itself 10 times, before terminating the function.

local function hello(counter)
print("hello")
counter = counter + 1
if counter < 10 then
hello(counter)
end
end

hello(0)

[O3_O2]

I figured out that it was because i was using “local hello = function” and not local function hello(). I’m not sure why thats a thing.