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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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  • Can you give an example of why you would want to do this? Commented Oct 15, 2011 at 21:20

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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.

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