Declaring and using loops

Loops are valuable components when it comes to programming, especially when working with sets of data. It would, of course, be quite unrealistic to expect a programmer to index and assign all one thousand elements of a hypothetical table to variables in order to perform some sort of operation. Or in a Roblox setting, manually change the properties of thousands of parts if you wanted to. To accomplish behaviors like this, loops are key. They function by jumping back to the beginning of their code block if a condition is still met, executing until they reach their terminating case.

for loops

for loops are a type of loop that are primarily used for iterating over datasets. In Luau, those datasets are typically related to tables or numbers. In Luau, there are two types of for loops: numeric for loops and generic for loops. The primary difference between these is what determines how they are executed. For numeric for loops, a variable is assigned to a...