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What if a variable isn't defined?
A friend of mine made a gun script, In his line of code I noticed that one of the variables doesn't have a value assigned to it (Character)
local Player = Players.LocalPlayer local Character local Mouse = Player:GetMouse()
The script works, there's no doubt about that, but why? What does the character variable equal, and if it doesn't equal anything, why put it there in the first place?
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you can assign a value to a variable later on INOOBE_YT 387 — 5y
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So why didn't that person just declare the variable later on? DominousSyndicate 41 — 5y
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Not assigning a value to variable within a statement makes that statement a Declaration statement, instead of a Initialization statement.
Declaring a variable just means you create a new variable that may or may not be used later on, and declaring it early means you can use it anywhere in the script as needed.
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But to declare it you would have to use (Character =) right? So whats the point of doing it twice? DominousSyndicate 41 — 5y
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Honestly there's not really a point but coding languages just have it :l hipenguinflip 30 — 5y
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This is more for use in functions, loops, and proving something exists. hipenguinflip 30 — 5y