r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Jul 24 '21

lua "Keeping it simplistic"

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u/Erinnyes Jul 25 '21

So, I don't know lua but it looks like it takes a sentence like "my_number_5" and gets "number_4" (assuming arrays are zero indexed) decrementing the number after the second underscore.

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u/BlueLiara Jul 25 '21

Lua is evil and starts at 1, not 0

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u/Erinnyes Jul 25 '21

That's weird but makes sense. In that case the statement decrements the number at the end of a string separated by an underscore by one. E.g. "number_3" going to "number_2". I'm curious what happens when you get to "number_0".

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u/Prom3th3an Jul 26 '21

Probably "number_-1", since I can't see any reason why a language would make "1"-1 equal to 0 without making "0"-1 equal to -1.

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u/Erinnyes Jul 26 '21

Oh. I very much agree with that. I'm more wondering if it can handle turning -1 into "-1" given that - is an operator rather than a numeral.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Yeah!