[Azul]

Originally Posted by ChaosInc Oh duh, it's a logic issue. Ok,here's the lowdown on what's happening in your example (still tired, bear with me ). 1) check for global foo if not foo then... 2) if global foo doesn't exist, create a local foo local foo = "foo" 3) after declaring the end of the if statement, local foo is destroyed. Translated as per the compiler: foo = NIL 4) attempt to create text text = foo..bar 5) ERROR - a global foo still hasn't been created. And since the local was destroyed in stage 3, foo still remains as NIL Also, I realize after looking back that the function would have to go before the scripts (which is always a good practice to maintain, for the record), but you posted the fix already.

How do I check for a local foo instead? And be defined in the function scope instead of the if statement? If this is impossible then defining them inside the update definitely isn't an alternative and I need a way around the 60 upvalue limit like I asked for in the first post.