How to call a function within a function in Lua?

Question

I have this code:

function test()
    function awesome()
        print("im awesome!")
    end

    function notawesome()
        print("im not awesome.")
    end

    function notevenawesome()
        print("im not even awesome...")
    end
end

test().notawesome()

When I run this, the console prints

15: attempt to index a nil value

What I'm trying to do is call the function notawesome() within the function test(), how would I do that?

Answer 1

Your function is not returning anything (thus returning nil). Something like this should work:

function test()
    function awesome()
        print("im awesome!")
    end

    function notawesome()
        print("im not awesome.")
    end

    function notevenawesome()
        print("im not even awesome...")
    end
    result = {}
    result["notawesome"] = notawesome
    result["awesome"] = awesome
    result["notevenawesome"] = notevenawesome
    return result
end
test().notawesome()