can someone help me understand returning?

[ripe sun]

No youtube didn't help, and no chatGPT didn't help because chatGPT always likes to assume im talking about the same thing over and over again even when I tell it differently.

[gentle coyote]

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[ripe sun]

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[winged shuttle]

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[gentle coyote]

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[gentle coyote]

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[karmic karma]

returning as in function() .... return x end ??

[unique olive]

This is a reading comprehension issue bru 😭

But all that return does it give is hault the code and gives you something

If I were to make a function to add two numbers together, I can make that function also return those numbers to me

local function add(x, y)
    return x + y
end

print(add(1, 2)) --> prints 3

[ripe sun]

Why can’t I just do print x + y

In the function

Same thing

[unique olive]

This may be the reason you might not be understanding return

[winged shuttle]

@ripe sun did you read this?

[ripe sun]

?

[ripe sun]

1 sec

[winged shuttle]

you meant 3 hours?

[arctic valley]

returning is kinda like referencing

returning is very useful in functions especially

[ripe sun]

alr

I understand

now

ty

[ripe sun]

I saw it