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Lua scope
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scope
function SomeFunc()
local x = 3
local function InnerFunc()
x = 22
end
InnerFunc()
return x
end
--Now what does this return? This is more clear (in my opinion): 22. The x of InnerFunc goes up until it finds x in scope or hits the global namespace. In this instance, it finds x locally right above it, as we wanted it to.
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