I want to set dynamic variable names.
such as
function make(name)
local name..bar = "ipsum"
end
make(foo)
this possible?
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For globals it’s simply indexing like
_G[name..bar]. For locals you could emulate this by setting all globals you use in a local table, and index that one. For an approach to really use a local, I can’t help you.