Scripting Basics - Beginner guide to lua and Roblox

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@posatta

local function x() is just syntactic sugar for local x = function()

No. It’s actually syntactic sugar for local x; x = function().

@posatta

Variables are a name you assign a value to, like x = 3 . When you call a function with a specific value, that value is an argument being passed as a parameter to that function.

They’re still variables. You can assign values to parameters, and internally Lua treats them exactly the same as a local variable.