Re: Indirect function call

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> indirect("afunc(x)")
> 
> afunc(42) called
> nil
> 
> Can anybody explain why the output is nil instead of 42?

Because you did not return anything in the call. Try
	indirect("return afunc(x)")

Or add "return" automatically inside indirect before calling loadstring:

 function indirect(str)
     local result = loadstring("return "..str)()
     print(tostring(result))
 end