Im currently reading the programming in lua book to learn more about lua but how important is it in roblox if the way the functions are called are differnt in regular lua and roblox lua?
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Can someone explain How important it is regular lua to learn when scripting for roblox?
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Roblox uses a modified version of Lua.If you know lua it can be only a little easier cause roblox lua is kinda different then Lua.I recommend just study Lua for a week and get a basic understanding then try Roblox Lua.
There isnt much of a difference from regular lua and roblox lua but i think that knowing as much as possible about roblox lua which is what you'll be using instead of regular will help a lot though
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ROBLOX uses Lua. Using that common sense, you can come into conclusion that, yes, it is important.
learn both.
but why are the functions for the same things like metables called differently in pure lua?
its metatables, not metables, and they don't have completely different names in both versions, for example, __index is still __index, and table.sort is still called table.sort