Quick question about the use of "or" and "and" when checking for something.

[feldma]

Sorry about the really crappy title. Not sure how to word it very well.

Anyway, just asking about something that's confused me for a while.

I wanted to return a function that returns true when its one of the chosen teams.

return self:Team() == 1 or 2

Is that correct? Would that return true if the player was 1 or 2?

Also, how would you go about checking for a lot of teams? If I had 10 teams I wanted to all return true for that function, how would I do that? Usually I would keep on repeating (or self:Team() == 3 or self:Team() == 4), but that is just really painful and horrendous coding.

[MysteryPancake]

return self:Team() == 1 or 2

This doesn't work because Lua interprets self:Team() == 1 as true if they're on team 1 and false if they're on team 2, so you're really asking:

return false or 2

Depending on whether or not the player's team is 1. Really, what you need to do is this:

return self:Team() == 1 or self:Team() == 2

[feldma]

Yeah, that's what I thought.
Damnit though. Guess my code will still look bad then ;(

Also just one other question, I see people doing stuff like

return 1 or 2 and 3 or 4[return]
How does that work? (That might not have been the best example ever...)

[MysteryPancake]

Also, if you have a lot of teams, usually people use tables like so:

local tab = {
[1] = true,
[2] = true,
[3] = true
}

return tab[self:Team()] ~= nil

[editline]16th July 2016[/editline]

sorry, automerge

Well, if people return multiple things like that, usually they're just checking whichever one isn't nil (or whichever one is true), for example:

return nil or nil or 2 or nil

That would return 2

Also, this returns true:

return false or false or false or true

Also, for your code I think you could simply do

return ply:Team() >= 1 and ply:Team() <= 10

That'd return true if the player's team was between 1 and 10

[feldma]

[B]*facepalm*[/B]

Yep, that would work fine. Thanks a lot!