New here but probably a stupid question

[sinsiter]

Hi guys New I'm New tonthisbso please bare with me lol. But it's more a lua question. So if I made a table like

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player = {} 
Player.x = 0
Player.y = 0
Player.speed = 100

Would all this get stores in the player table even though it has a .x or .y? When I was learning tables I could have sworn that to store something into the table it would have to use the same name like.. player = whatever . Sorry for the horrible question.

[Skeletonxf]

that code is equivalent to

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player = {
  x = 0, 
  y = 0, 
  speed = 100
}

assuming you mean to be using

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player

as you haven't defined a table called

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Player

Edit: Managed to merge the two correct table construction syntaxes into one incorrect version as has now been pointed out

[Мэтю]

Actually, that could would raise and error since lua is case sensitive, so player differs from Player. So, the dot refer to an object, which you want to store x, y and speed, but as I said before it'll raise an error as the object "Player" doesn't exists because you haven't declared it yet.

[sinsiter]

Ok thank guys!

[sinsiter]

Another question. What's the difference between the two if they do the same thing?

that code is equivalent to

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player = {
  "x" = 0, 
  "y" = 0, 
  "speed" = 100
}

assuming you mean to be using

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player

as you haven't defined a table called

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Player

[IsawU]

Another question. What's the difference between the two if they do the same thing?

The difference is almost none, sometimes you will find using .x = 0, .y = 0, .speed = 100 (easier to read), other times you will enjoy using {x = 0, y = 0, speed = 100} (initializing the table in one line of code).

P.S. At least in Lua 5.3 it should be {x = 0} not {"x" = 0} (which throws an error).

[zorg]

Another question. What's the difference between the two if they do the same thing?

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a = {
	b = 5,
	c = b -- or even a.b
}

-- The above code doesn't do what you expect it to (set a.c to 5 as well), as how the below code does it

a = {}
a.b = 5
a.c = a.b

[bartbes]

P.S. At least in Lua 5.3 it should be {x = 0} not {"x" = 0} (which throws an error).

Yeah it should be

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player = {
    x = 0,
    y = 0,
    speed = 100
}

or

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player = {
    ["x"] = 0,
    ["y"] = 0,
    ["speed"] = 100,
}