clonefunction

Overview of the clonefunction function.

Function definition

function clonefunction(closure: (...any) -> (...any)): (...any) -> (...any)

High-Level Overview

Creates a copy of closure, that even if closure is modified with, for example, hookfunction, has the same behaviour.

Low-Level Overview

Luau closures are trivially copyable, as in the Luau C API there already is a method to copy them.lua_clonefunction For C closures, we must copy all the members and appropriately copy all the upvalues; this includes modifying the internal newcclosure map to keep track of which function should call what, should it ever be cloned.