Reference manual for Lua 4.0

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• 1 - Introduction
• 2 - Environment and Chunks
• 3 - Types and Tags
• 4 - The Language
  • 4.1 - Lexical Conventions
  • 4.2 - Coercion
  • 4.3 - Adjustment
  • 4.4 - Statements
  • 4.5 - Expressions
  • 4.6 - Visibility and Upvalues
  • 4.7 - Error Handling
  • 4.8 - Tag Methods
• 5 - The Application Program Interface
  • 5.1 - States
  • 5.2 - The Stack and Indices
  • 5.3 - Stack Manipulation
  • 5.4 - Querying the Stack
  • 5.5 - Pushing values onto the Stack
  • 5.6 - Garbage Collection
  • 5.7 - Userdata and Tags
  • 5.8 - Executing Lua Code
  • 5.9 - Manipulating Global Variables in Lua
  • 5.10 - Manipulating Tables in Lua
  • 5.11 - Using Tables as Arrays
  • 5.12 - Calling Lua Functions
  • 5.13 - Defining C Functions
  • 5.14 - References to Lua Objects
• 6 - Standard Libraries
  • 6.1 - Basic Functions
  • 6.2 - String Manipulation
  • 6.3 - Mathematical Functions
  • 6.4 - I/O Facilities
  • 6.5 - System Facilities
• 7 - The Debug Interface
  • 7.1 - Stack and Function Information
  • 7.2 - Manipulating Local Variables
  • 7.3 - Hooks
  • 7.4 - The Reflexive Debug Interface
• 8 - Lua Stand-alone
• Acknowledgments
• Incompatibilities with Previous Versions
• The Complete Syntax of Lua
• Index