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Lua: Decalring a function

Started by xuma202, 08 August 2012 - 04:36 PM

xuma202 #1

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Posted 08 August 2012 - 06:36 PM

Hi,

what is the difference between


function a()
  print("test")
end

and


a = function()
  print("test")
end

I've seen both so far and they both work but what is the difference?

Cloudy #2

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Posted 08 August 2012 - 06:45 PM

Nothing really - function a() is just syntactic sugars for a = function().