Dynamically assigned table variables?

Question

Writing a function in Lua, which creates two tables. I want the tables to be assigned to the value name with an x added, and one with a y added. For example if name was line, it

Answer 1

If you want these in the global name space you would use

_G[name..'x']={}
_G[name..'y']={}

For a module you'd use _M in place of _G.