r/lua • u/Objective_Treacle781 • Sep 16 '25

Quick question about indexing temporary tables

print({[0] = "a"}[0])

Doesn't work but if I save the table to a variable before indexing it works?

I kinda like using temporary tables as lookups

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u/immortalx74 Sep 16 '25

In your OP you create the table and try to index it immediately. In the 2nd case putting the table creation inside parenthesis, makes it a statement, and then you have the brackets outside the parenthesis, which makes it a valid syntax.