Reference Manual of the Programming Language Lua 3.2

Roberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, Waldemar Celes
lua@tecgraf.puc-rio.br
TeCGraf, Computer Science Department, PUC-Rio

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• 1 - Introduction
• 2 - Environment and Chunks
• 3 - Types and Tags
• 4 - The Language
  • 4.1 - Lexical Conventions
  • 4.2 - The Pre-processor
  • 4.3 - Coercion
  • 4.4 - Adjustment
  • 4.5 - Statements
  • 4.6 - Expressions
  • 4.7 - Visibility and Upvalues
  • 4.8 - Tag Methods
  • 4.9 - Error Handling
• 5 - The Application Program Interface
  • 5.1 - Managing States
  • 5.2 - Exchanging Values between C and Lua
  • 5.3 - Garbage Collection
  • 5.4 - Executing Lua Code
  • 5.5 - Manipulating Lua Objects
  • 5.6 - Calling Lua Functions
  • 5.7 - C Functions
  • 5.8 - References to Lua Objects
• 6 - Predefined Functions and Libraries
  • 6.1 - Predefined Functions
  • 6.2 - String Manipulation
  • 6.3 - Mathematical Functions
  • 6.4 - I/O Facilities
• 7 - The Debugger Interface
  • 7.1 - Stack and Function Information
  • 7.2 - Manipulating Local Variables
  • 7.3 - Hooks
  • 7.4 - The Reflexive Debugger Interface
• 8 - Lua Stand-alone
• Acknowledgments
• Incompatibilities with Previous Versions
• Index