I want to know if it’s possible to retrieve data from what is given when printing a function (or before, tables).
Do the results returned even truly mean anything? Because when running something like this:
print(function() return 1 end)
It returns different result every time. Although it doesn’t when creating the function beforehand.
in the function itself, did u used return
The result of the print is the memory address of the function. The only use case I can think of is debugging stuff that involves comparing functions.
This returns the memory adress of the function, because you never call it. When creating a function and calling it with a specific name you can return data. To get this to work, instead you can use an anonymous function.
print((function() return 1 end)())
So, it’s basically like a variable for the function, hence the different address whenever an anonymous function is called. Also, I just wanted to know that, not why the script wasn’t returning 1.