7 Some Examples

This section gives examples showing some features of Lua. It does not intend to cover the whole language, but only to illustrate some interesting uses of the system.

• 7.1 The Functions next and nextvar
• 7.2 Manipulating Strings
• 7.3 Persistence
• 7.4 Inheritance
• 7.5 A CFunction
• 7.6 Calling Lua Functions from C