do i not understand how lua works or something? i assigned 2 variables with unpack.
“a” correctly displays its children
“b” doesn’t and instead displays the same children “a” has
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this is probably a bug. Roblox’s new intelli sense has issues sometimes with unpack.
The typechecker infers the type of an array by the type of the first entry. If you throw --!strict at the top, it’ll put up a warning on the second entry because its type is different than the first entry.
but here’s a fix that works:
local tab = {{x = 2}, {y = 2}}
local a: {x: number}, b: {y: number} = unpack(tab)
This is probably intended.
When you’re using table.unpack, it’s expected that every element inside of the array has the same type, because that’s good practice (for a heck of a lot of reasons). This is why the tuple has the same typing as the first element of the array.
Notice also in --!strict mode, it warns you that the table values are incompatible:
--!strict
local foo = {
{a = 1},
{b = 1}, --> there will be an incompatibility warning here
}
You can circumvent this issue by using a type for the table you’re trying to unpack:
--!strict
type foo = {
{
a: number?,
b: number?,
}
}
local foo: foo = {
{a = 1},
{b = 1},
}
local one, two = table.unpack(foo) --> "one" and "two" will have proper autocomplete now