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?
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.
But to declare it you would have to use (Character =) right? So whats the point of doing it twice?
Honestly there's not really a point but coding languages just have it :l
This is more for use in functions, loops, and proving something exists.
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you can assign a value to a variable later on
So why didn't that person just declare the variable later on?