Using dictionaries as directories for ModuleScript

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Hello,

My aim is to organize my library better by separating my module script into multiple different scripts which will be referenced by calling module.submodule.function(). The submodule would be a module script inside the module script. This is what it would look like in the explorer:

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At the moment inside the main module my code looks like this to test:

local Main = {
	["Sub"] = script.Sub
}

return Main

The code in the sub module looks like this:

local Sub = {}

function Sub.Say()
print("Hello")
end

return Sub

Then I call the module from a server script using this code:

local Module = require(game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("Main"))

Module.Sub.Say()

However the error I’m getting in the console is this:

15:34:18.937 Say is not a valid member of ModuleScript “ReplicatedStorage.Main.Sub” - Server - Script:3

Thanks for taking your time to read. Help is appreciated.

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2

From what you’ve shown above, it does not look like you have something called ‘Sub’ inside that module.
It looks like you have something called ‘Submodule’ and not ‘Sub’.

3

No it is called “sub”. I updated the topic with a screenshot of the explorer.

4

Sub is a module script.

You’re suppose to require Sub so it returns the table you’re trying to index instead of indexing the module script itself.

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5

Also be aware doing this will make it extremely difficult to browse through your module and find how a function works.

The method i use instead looks something like this:

do --Connect stuff to events
    local E = yata yata
    E.Something.YataYata.OnServerEvent:Connect(etc. etc.)
end

do --Other stuff
    --More stuff here
end

do --More stuff
    --stuff
end

And you can have do end sections inside do end sections.

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