What's wrong with this Lua code?

["Soni L." <fakedme@...>]

I have this Lua code:

local string = "" print(string.format("%X", 16777216))

And it works perfectly, but I was told it's wrong? What's wrong with it? 
Why shouldn't I do this?

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