Referencing functions enclosing table in Lua?

You don't. Well, not without storing a copy of the table, or passing the function the table as a parameter. Until all of the statements of the table constructor have been processed, the table doesn't exist yet.

And since you never stored it anywhere (in this function), your function can't name it in order to find it.

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