return

[lament dew]

how to make return work only when the function is executed?

[lunar pilot]

what

expand?

[humble apex]

it already works like that.

[lament dew]

I turn on the game - return starts itself even if the function was not executed

[lament dew]

when I click play it immediately prints 5

[humble apex]

yeah cause you are calling the function

[lament dew]

and how can I fix it??

[humble apex]

local a2 = test() will save the value the function returns

not the function

local a2 = test will save the function

[lament dew]

oh

[humble apex]

so you'll able to do this

local a2 = test
local result = a2()  --> 5

[lament dew]

thank you

[humble apex]

no worries

[humble apex]

ofc if the function returns something

if it does not return anything it'll just run the function but the variable will be nil

[lament dew]

oh okay thank you

[dusty sphinx]

** You are now Level 7! **

[humble apex]

no worries

Although functions are very important, I recommend you don't get too ahead of yourself

[lament dew]

yea

[humble apex]

they are actually the last thing you would ideally learn, the problem here is that you are learning scripting for roblox instead of programming concepts

well "problem"

just a piece of advice you did not asked for

[lament dew]

but thanks for telling me

[humble apex]

- What is an algorithm
- What are data types and why they exist
- What are variables, and why they are used, and how they work
- printing
- how logic flows (literally how scripts are read by the interpreter)
- Prepositional logic, and if statements
- scopes
- While loop and Repeat until loop
- basic data structures (roblox language, Luau only has one, tables, but there are many!)
- for loops
- functions

if you are curious

that's the ideal order

notice how this has nothing to do with roblox

but with programming

if you know these, you can script basically anywhere, not just in roblox

hope it helps, good luck