Getting multiple values from a function without creating a variables in LUA

Question

Is there any way to get several values from a function without creating variables for it?

local major, minor, revision, codename = love.getVersion() -- Get c         


        

Answer 1

Here is the function signature: [https://love2d.org/wiki/love.getVersion] which just returns multiple value, if understand to achieve like what you are asking for, you can have wrapper around getVersion to have lua table returned either like below or in array format

local function getVersion()
 local meta_data = {minor_version = "0.1", major_version = "1"}
 return meta_data
end

local res = getVersion()
print ("minor_version: ", res['minor_version'])
print ("major_version: ", res['major_version'])