Hi,
In CBEffect, I saw this code: local kos = CBE.VentGroup{ and was wondering what does it mean. I know a parenthesis after a value means function call but I have no idea what dose the curly brace. My best guess is that it makes a table or something inside VentGroup.
Thanks.
It’s still a function call but passing a table directly as a parameter; so essentially it’s just removing the () braces for us lazy programmers 
I believe I’m right in saying that, hopefully one of the Lua experts will be able to confirm or deny.
No that’s definitely it.
-- This... myCoolFunction{1,2,3,4} -- Is the same as this... mycoolFunction({1,2,3,4})
Lua is super cool and lets you pass a table direct rather than having to use braces on everything.
You meant parenthesis?
I generally forget the names of all the braces. 
{} can be used in place of ()
doStuff( {1,2,3} ) is the same as doStuff{1,2,3}
[] is a substitute for . in tables
myTable.cool is the same as myTable[“cool”]
That took me some time to understand when I started up, arrays and tables, keys and values and tables inside tables…with syntactic sugar like we´re talking about here
It’s still a function call but passing a table directly as a parameter; so essentially it’s just removing the () braces for us lazy programmers
I believe I’m right in saying that, hopefully one of the Lua experts will be able to confirm or deny.
No that’s definitely it.
-- This... myCoolFunction{1,2,3,4} -- Is the same as this... mycoolFunction({1,2,3,4})
Lua is super cool and lets you pass a table direct rather than having to use braces on everything.
You meant parenthesis?
I generally forget the names of all the braces.
{} can be used in place of ()
doStuff( {1,2,3} ) is the same as doStuff{1,2,3}
[] is a substitute for . in tables
myTable.cool is the same as myTable[“cool”]
That took me some time to understand when I started up, arrays and tables, keys and values and tables inside tables…with syntactic sugar like we´re talking about here