technical question

[IIYAMA]

Is there any special differences between those two local functions:

  
local myFunction = function () 
  
end 
  
  
local function myFunction () 
  
end 
  

[RaceXtreme]

No, its the same thing

When you type function MyFunction (), Lua just declare a variable called MyFunction thats refer to a function. The local term will just make this function valid for a pice of code.

[IIYAMA]

are they 100% the same?

with the same performance?

[DiSaMe]

http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#3.4.10

The statement

local function f () body end 

translates to

local f; f = function () body end 

not to

local f = function () body end 

(This only makes a difference when the body of the function contains references to f.)

[IIYAMA]

ok,

I only don't understand what they mean with this:

(This only makes a difference when the body of the function contains references to f.)

-What is "f"? Is that the function that contains the function?

Can you give me two samples when I better can use:

    
local function f () body end 
--and 
local f = function () body end 

Because in my opinion the website isn't very clear.