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What is a tuple?
Hello. I recently just found about this thing called Filtering Enabled and omg it looks complicated.
I found some links to Remote Events and stuff but can't find a link about tuples.
Please help asap!
Regards, Nathan.
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A tuple is an ordered list of elements. It means it accepts one or more arguments of any type. Tuple is written as three dots (...) in Lua.
01 | -- param: tuple ... |
02 | function foo(...) |
03 | print(...) |
04 | end |
05 |
06 | foo(1,2,3) |
07 | > prints '1, 2, 3' |
08 | foo("Hi,", " there!") |
09 | > prints 'Hi, there!' |
10 |
11 | ------ |
12 |
13 | function bar(...) |
14 | args = {...} |
15 | script.Parent.Name = args[1] |
16 | script.Parent.BrickColor = args[2] |
17 | end |
18 |
19 | bar("Blue Brick", BrickColor.Blue()) |
20 | > Changes the name to Blue Brick and it's color to Bright blue. |
As you see, it's quite up to you how you use it. It's common to assign the tuple in a table in the function to easier handle it throughout the script.
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Ahah! Thanks! :) Do you have any links aswell? WelpNathan 307 — 10y
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You can check out https://code.google.com/p/lua-files/wiki/tuple and http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=Tuple, although the firstmentioned can be a bit technical. I don't find the ROBLOX Wiki to cover it too well, sadly Ravenshield 180 — 10y
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Usually you don't actually need to use (`...`) though, because usually you know exactly how many parameters you are giving it! The remark that it is a tuple is just a technical specification that you *CAN* use as many as you want BlueTaslem 18071 — 10y