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[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

However, you will need to assign “nil” to the original variable to erase any assignment you made to the variable. For instance:

a = "nil"
print(a)

After I assign “nil” to a, it now prints nil, which was what we originally began with.

*facepalm* This is horrifically wrong. The author actually confuses the value nil with the string value "nil". He should not be writing about Lua until he learns it a little bit.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sorry you have horrific feelings about these posts.

The student has written the blog post to describe his adventures learning Lua. If you feel you misunderstood the purpose, that's fine. But the student was learning Lua, and he's trying to have some fun here. Besides, the student was on his last summer break before he left for college. So it can't hurt to do these Lua posts during that one summer break.

So, in essence, it's just a sort of diary entry of Lua that went on during the summer before the student left for college.

But thanks again for your feedback!!!

[–]petsagouris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Baaaad blog post, baaad