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Workspace.resourcespawner1:7: attempt to call global Workspace (a userdata value) help?

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pwnd64 106
9 years ago

I'm trying to make something respawn after it is destroyed (should be easy) but I keep getting the error in the title. I'm not sure how to make it go away.

Here is the code -

while true do
wait(.1)
if not game.Workspace:FindFirstChild("resource") then
print 'no resource'
wait(2)
game.Lighting.resource:Clone().Parent = game.Workspace
'spawned resource'
end
end

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Answered by
BlueTaslem 18071 Moderation Voter Administrator Community Moderator Super Administrator
9 years ago

You forgot print on line 7. Lua is interpreting the code as

blah.Parent = workspace("spawned resource")

-- a function call on workspace -- which is obviously not what you meant.

This is why it's bad that Lua made parenthesis optional around calling. Relatedly, you should not omit the parenthesis when calling.

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sigh.. how did I miss that? lmao thanks a lot dude pwnd64 106 — 9y
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Goulstem 8144 Badge of Merit Moderation Voter Administrator Community Moderator
9 years ago

Function calls ignore whitespaces. So doing this still works;

function a()
end

a
''

Why this is relevant information is because you failed to provide the print function on line 7. Therefore, the script assumed you were calling a function 'Workspace' - But Workspace is not a function, thus the error.

while wait(.1) do
    if not game.Workspace:FindFirstChild("resource") then
        print 'no resource'
        wait(2)
        game.Lighting.resource:Clone().Parent = game.Workspace
        print 'spawned resource'
    end
end

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