F

This function was added in v1.6 beta and will not work on previous versions.

This function belongs to server scripts and not npcscripts.

The parameter type userdata was added in v1.6 beta 2 and will not work in v1.6 beta.

Description:
This will return a userdata which can be passed to RFC for calling remote functions.

Parameters:

[string]funcname or [userdata]

funcname : The name of a function of the npcscript or userdata returned by F(On the assumption that call to just mentioned F returns a function which is our target function).
This F can be nested indefinitely either in first set of brackets or in the second set of brackets. See Examples for the former type of nesting.

Return Values:
The function returns a userdata.

Example

Server Script

local a = F("format")("My name is %s\n", F("GetMyName")() )
local b = RFC( npcid, "print" )( a );

which will output My name is npcname on npc console.

Related Functions

The following functions may be helpful as they relate to this function in one way or another.

• RFC

Parameter types supported of the returned closure are:

Numbers/Integers
Float
String
bool	true/false
Null	null
Vector	Vector(x,y,z)
Quaternion	Quaternion(x,y,z,w)
Userdata returned by F (Function)	F("print")(500) See F
Array

The following parameter types are not supported:

Blob

Class Instances other than Vector or Quaternion