Reference manual

Copyright © 2002 Tecgraf, PUC-Rio. All rights reserved.

• 1 - Introduction
• 2 - Lua Concepts
  • 2.1 - Environment and Chunks
  • 2.2 - Table of Globals
  • 2.3 - Values and Types
  • 2.4 - Coercion
  • 2.5 - Variables
  • 2.6 - Garbage Collection
• 3 - The Language
  • 3.1 - Lexical Conventions
  • 3.2 - Variables
  • 3.3 - Statements
  • 3.4 - Expressions
  • 3.5 - Visibility Rules
  • 3.6 - Error Handling
  • 3.7 - Metatables
• 4 - The Application Program Interface
  • 4.1 - States
  • 4.2 - Threads
  • 4.3 - The Stack and Indices
  • 4.4 - Stack Manipulation
  • 4.5 - Querying the Stack
  • 4.6 - Getting Values from the Stack
  • 4.7 - Pushing Values onto the Stack
  • 4.8 - Controlling Garbage Collection
  • 4.9 - Userdata
  • 4.10 - Metatables
  • 4.11 - Loading Lua Chunks
  • 4.12 - Manipulating Tables
  • 4.13 - Manipulating Global Variables
  • 4.14 - Using Tables as Arrays
  • 4.15 - Calling Functions
  • 4.16 - Protected Calls
  • 4.17 - Defining C Functions
  • 4.18 - Defining C Closures
• 5 - The Debug Interface
  • 5.1 - Stack and Function Information
  • 5.2 - Manipulating Local Variables
  • 5.3 - Hooks
• 6 - Standard Libraries
  • 6.1 - Basic Functions
  • 6.2 - String Manipulation
  • 6.3 - Table Manipulation
  • 6.4 - Mathematical Functions
  • 6.5 - Input and Output Facilities
  • 6.6 - Operating System Facilities
  • 6.7 - The Reflexive Debug Interface
• 7 - Lua Stand-alone
• Acknowledgments
• Incompatibilities with Previous Versions
• The Complete Syntax of Lua
• Index