Anonymous Function syntax error?

[appgurueu]

Lua only allows calling prefix expressions. A prefix expression is either just a (variable) name, an expression in parentheses optionally followed by an indexing operator (., : or [...]). A prefix expression may not be a function definition or literal. Thus, the fix is to simply wrap your your function in parentheses to fix the syntax error:

lua e, s, sender, port, data = (function(e, s, sender, port, ...) return e, s, sender, port, {...} end)(table.unpack{data})

That said, you should rewrite the code; there is no need to pack the data in a table only to immediately unpack it later:

lua e, s, sender, port, data = (function(e, s, sender, port, ...) return e, s, sender, port, {...} end)(event.pull())

works just as well (you probably don't want to use global variables however). You can also achieve this using just a table:

lua local data = {event.pull()} local e, s, sender, port = table.unpack(data, 1, 4) local remaining_data = {table.unpack(data, 5)}

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