Forward define a function in Lua?

Question

How do I call a function that needs to be called from above its creation? I read something about forward declarations, but Google isn\'t being helpful in this case. What is

Answer 1

Testing under the embedded lua in Freeswitch, forward declaration does not work:

fmsg("CRIT", "It worked.")
function fmsg(infotype, msg)
   freeswitch.consoleLog(infotype,  msg .. "\n")
end

result:

[ERR] mod_lua.cpp:203 /usr/local/freeswitch/scripts/foo.lua:1: attempt to call global 'fmsg' (a nil value)

Reversing the order does (duh) work.