Question: Basic Question about boolean values and help with code

Hey guys!

I'm a total newbie to programming and got a basic question about true and false: how does the computer save them to the next line? I mean, if I got a statement that results in either false or true (redstone.Input e.g.), do I have to conserve it somehow to further work with it?

Here is my code and unfortunately it doesn't work.

redstone.testBundledInput("back", colors.white)
if true then
for i=1, 4 do
redstone.setBundledOutput("back", colors.orange)
sleep(0.5)
redstone.setBundledOutput("back", 0)
sleep(0.5)
else
redstone.setBundledOutput("back", colors.orange)
sleep(0.5)
redstone.setBundledOutput("back", 0)

Maybe somebody can help me?

Split into new topic.

Why not just use the boolean value directly?

if rs.testBundledInput("back", colors.white) then

An if statement always requires a boolean type, therefor a true statement.
True statements are for example
1==1
2 < 3
…
or of course a simple true.
(You can probably imagine that 0==1 is false)

In your case the function you call will either return true or false.
That means you can either write the function call in the if statement directly or you allocate your yield to a variable

b = func()
If b==true then ...

--or(as it already is a boolean variable)

if b then ...

Your if true then will obviously always be true…

Note that all conditionals can take any value, and will treat all values other than nil or false as being true.