8 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.

• 8.1 Data Structures
• 8.2 The Functions next and nextvar
• 8.3 Manipulating Strings
• 8.4 Variable number of arguments
• 8.5 Persistence
• 8.6 Inheritance
• 8.7 Programming with Classes
• 8.8 Modules
• 8.9 A CFunction
• 8.10 Calling Lua Functions from C