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What does the syntax return do ?
Like this for example:
1 | function Hello(name) |
2 | if true then |
3 | --code |
4 | return name |
5 | end |
6 | end |
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Ok, so you have a function to make a part, for example:
1 | function make() |
2 | local x = Instance.new("Part", workspace) |
3 | --stuff to make it nice |
4 | end |
And now, lets say that we want to edit it later in a script.
1 | make() |
2 | wait(5) |
3 | workspace.Part:remove() |
Well, how do we know what part it is? We can't do workspace.Part, because there might be other parts there, and that wouldn't be a good thing, removing the wrong part. So lets add a return:
1 | function make() |
2 | local x = Instance.new("Part", workspace) |
3 | --stuff to make it nice |
4 | return x |
5 | end |
What this allows us to do is it allows us to store what we return in a variable, like this:
1 | local b = make() |
2 | wait(5) |
3 | b:remove() |
You can also return multiple things:
01 | function make() |
02 | local x = Instance.new("Part", workspace) |
03 | --stuff to make it nice |
04 | local y = Instance.new("Part", workspace) |
05 | --stuff to make it nice |
06 | local z = Instance.new("Part", workspace) |
07 | --stuff to make it nice |
08 | return x,y,z |
09 | end |
10 |
11 | local a,b,c = make() |
12 | wait(5) |
13 | a:remove() |
14 | b:remove() |
15 | c:remove() |
