Table Assigning to another Table Error

[elonrocket]

As @dthecoolest said, tables pass by reference not value so you are editing the exact same table

Pass by reference?

Think of a reference like a notecard with a street address for a house on it. Now, instead of passing the whole house around, you just pass around the notecard with the address on it. When you want to access the house, you have the address at hand. You have a reference to the house. In Lua, passing by reference vs. passing by value is implicit. Functions, tables, and userdata are passed by reference, while strings, numbers, and booleans are passed by value (e.g. they’re copied). Here’s a code …

List of what’s passed by reference and what’s passed by value

@sleitnick

I don’t know. But typically in most popular dynamic languages, non-primitives are passed by reference, and primitives are passed by value.

The primitives in Lua are:

• number
• string
• boolean
• nil

The non-primitives:

• function
• userdata
• thread
• table