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What's the difference between local and _G?
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What's the difference of using local and _G?
I just want to know the difference and when to use them.
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_G is a table that is shared across every script in a given environment (server separate from client separate from corescripts)
local is a keyword for defining variables in the local scope so that they cannot be accessed or changed outside of the block they are defined in.
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_G --means global, a variable used for all scripts in the server local --means it is a variable only used for one function