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What is the difference between 'type' and 'typeof'?
The wiki doesn't really go much into in-depth with the difference, all it says is that 'typeof' is more useful but how?
What is the difference aren't they the same thing?
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typeof extends type meaning if UserData is found Roblox will try ang get its internal type then fall back to UserData. User#5423 17 — 5y
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They're the same CallBack methods, ROBLOX is going to deprecate type() soon to replace typeof(), though nothing changed about their functionality. Ziffixture 6913 — 5y
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Both type and typeof return what sort of data a variable is referring to. An excellent demonstration is given here: https://www.lua.org/pil/2.html
A frustration one might have in Roblox (before typeof came along) was that you couldn't tell the difference between Vector2, Vector3, Instance, etc - type just said they were all userdata. typeof fixes that problem.
ex:
print(type(workspace)) -- userdata print(typeof(workspace)) -- Instance print(type(Vector3.new())) -- userdata print(typeof(Vector3.new())) -- Vector3