Lua 5.0 Reference Manual

by Roberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, Waldemar Celes

• Lua 5.0 Reference Manual
• 1 – Introduction
• 2 – The Language
  • 2.1 – Lexical Conventions
  • 2.2 – Values and Types
  • 2.3 – Variables
  • 2.4 – Statements
  • 2.5 – Expressions
  • 2.6 – Visibility Rules
  • 2.7 – Error Handling
  • 2.8 – Metatables
  • 2.9 – Garbage Collection
  • 2.10 – Coroutines
• 3 – The Application Program Interface
  • 3.1 – States
  • 3.2 – The Stack and Indices
  • 3.3 – Stack Manipulation
  • 3.4 – Querying the Stack
  • 3.5 – Getting Values from the Stack
  • 3.6 – Pushing Values onto the Stack
  • 3.7 – Controlling Garbage Collection
  • 3.8 – Userdata
  • 3.9 – Metatables
  • 3.10 – Loading Lua Chunks
  • 3.11 – Manipulating Tables
  • 3.12 – Manipulating Environments
  • 3.13 – Using Tables as Arrays
  • 3.14 – Calling Functions
  • 3.15 – Protected Calls
  • 3.16 – Defining C Functions
  • 3.17 – Defining C Closures
  • 3.18 – Registry
  • 3.19 – Error Handling in C
  • 3.20 – Threads
• 4 – The Debug Interface
  • 4.1 – Stack and Function Information
  • 4.2 – Manipulating Local Variables and Upvalues
  • 4.3 – Hooks
• 5 – Standard Libraries
  • 5.1 – Basic Functions
  • 5.2 – Coroutine Manipulation
  • 5.3 – String Manipulation
  • 5.4 – Table Manipulation
  • 5.5 – Mathematical Functions
  • 5.6 – Input and Output Facilities
  • 5.7 – Operating System Facilities
  • 5.8 – The Reflexive Debug Interface
• 6 – Lua Stand-alone
• Acknowledgments
• Incompatibilities with Previous Versions
• The Complete Syntax of Lua