I was examining some code, and I saw something that started with "do" and nothing else. It looked like a normal loop or something, but without anything special. What does this do?
Example:
hi = "hello"
do
local hi = "yo"
print(hi)
end
print(hi)
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"do...end" statement
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What you're referring to is a do-end block. They come in the format below:
do
-- code block
end
So what's the advantage? do-end allows you to delimit a code block whenever you want. This is especially useful because delimiting a code block creates a new scope to place local variables in, should you ever require them.
Here's an example of this...
local a = 1
do
local a = 3
print("a = " .. a) -- prints a = 3
end
print("a = " .. a) -- prints a = 1
The scope of the variable a inside of the do-end block in my example is only within the do-end block. If you run the code, you can confirm that the variable's scope doesn't extend past the block.
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It's very useful for controlled scopes.