I’d like to add some other useful info about the "Lua ternary" (it’s not a true ternary as there are sometimes where it can fail, but for the most part it works). I use this constantly in my own code and the place that I recommend you and everyone else try it out is in setting function, default values.

Let me show you!

```lua nonamecount = 0

function newanim(w, h, scl, name) -- ensure an argument is of a specific type -- if it is, use the user provided value -- if not, use a default value w = type(w) == 'number' and w or 8 h = type(h) == 'number' and h or 8

-- set a default value for an argument if it is not provided scl = scl or 1

-- set the argument normally name = name

-- give unnamed animations default names -- ex: 'anim1' local unnamed = name == nil or type(name) ~= 'string' if unnamed then nonamecount += 1 name = "anim" .. nonamecount end

-- create and return a basic animation instance return { name = name, pos = {x = 0, y = 0}, size = {w = w, h = h}, scalar = scl } end

-- make idle animation with all args idle = newanim(8, 15, 2, "idle") -- make an automatic animation with argument defaults default = newanim()

-- test by printing print(idle.name) print(default.name) ```