Functions as First Class Objects - Callback Functions & Anonymous Functions - Lua Tutorial! (2021)

Functions in Lua are first class objects and technically all of them are anonymous. Let’s talk about what that actually means, and how we can use that knowledge to, among other things, create callback functions.

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00:00 Intro
00:13 Function syntax sugar
00:53 First class objects
02:03 Callback functions
02:23 Timer - Callback Example
04:48 Self invoking functions
06:19 Outro

[lebanbo]

Hi @DevJeeper， thank you for your reply in the last video, I am very satisfied with the adjustment and thank you very much.

[smellyfishstiks]

Just wanted to say that this is all stuff I've known but not sure I knew the names for it which was a interesting thing to learn.
Good stuff!

[RollnThndr]

Could you explain the Timer class you created? Not sure I understand where it calls updateAll() and how the delay in seconds is actually applied.

[vonnchristianfranco]

Hello, I'm trying to learn lua. I'm editing just some private server with lua programming and I want to learn how to Edit an Array or inside a csv file.