3 <TITLE>Lua
3.2 Reference Manual - Contents
</TITLE>
6 <BODY BGCOLOR=
"#FFFFFF">
9 <H1>Reference Manual of the Programming Language
10 <A HREF=
"http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/lua/">Lua
</A>
13 <A HREF=
"http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/">Roberto Ierusalimschy
</A>,
14 <A HREF=
"http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/">Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
</A>,
15 <A HREF=
"http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~celes/">Waldemar Celes
</A>
17 <A HREF=
"mailto:lua@tecgraf.puc-rio.br">lua@tecgraf.puc-rio.br
</A><BR>
18 <A HREF=
"http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br">TeCGraf
</A>,
19 <A HREF=
"http://www.inf.puc-rio.br">Computer Science Department
</A>,
20 <A HREF=
"http://www.puc-rio.br">PUC-Rio
</A>
24 <A HREF=
"manual.html">top
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26 <A HREF=
"#contents">contents
</A>
28 <A HREF=
"idx.html">index
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30 <A HREF=
"ftp://ftp.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/pub/lua/refman.ps.gz">ps
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32 <A HREF=
"ftp://ftp.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/pub/lua/refman.pdf">pdf
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34 <A HREF=
"old/">old versions
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37 <A NAME=
"contents"></A>
39 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#1.">1 - Introduction
</A>
40 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#2.">2 - Environment and Chunks
</A>
41 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#3.">3 - Types and Tags
</A>
42 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#4.">4 - The Language
</A>
44 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#4.1">4.1 - Lexical Conventions
</A>
45 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#4.2">4.2 - The Pre-processor
</A>
46 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#4.3">4.3 - Coercion
</A>
47 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#4.4">4.4 - Adjustment
</A>
48 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#4.5">4.5 - Statements
</A>
49 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#4.6">4.6 - Expressions
</A>
50 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#4.7">4.7 - Visibility and Upvalues
</A>
51 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#4.8">4.8 - Tag Methods
</A>
52 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#4.9">4.9 - Error Handling
</A>
54 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#5.">5 - The Application Program Interface
</A>
56 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#5.1">5.1 - Managing States
</A>
57 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#5.2">5.2 - Exchanging Values between C and Lua
</A>
58 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#5.3">5.3 - Garbage Collection
</A>
59 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#5.4">5.4 - Executing Lua Code
</A>
60 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#5.5">5.5 - Manipulating Lua Objects
</A>
61 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#5.6">5.6 - Calling Lua Functions
</A>
62 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#5.7">5.7 - C Functions
</A>
63 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#5.8">5.8 - References to Lua Objects
</A>
65 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#6.">6 - Predefined Functions and Libraries
</A>
67 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#6.1">6.1 - Predefined Functions
</A>
68 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#6.2">6.2 - String Manipulation
</A>
69 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#6.3">6.3 - Mathematical Functions
</A>
70 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#6.4">6.4 - I/O Facilities
</A>
72 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#7.">7 - The Debugger Interface
</A>
74 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#7.1">7.1 - Stack and Function Information
</A>
75 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#7.2">7.2 - Manipulating Local Variables
</A>
76 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#7.3">7.3 - Hooks
</A>
77 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#7.4">7.4 - The Reflexive Debugger Interface
</A>
79 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#8.">8 - Lua Stand-alone
</A>
80 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#Acknowledgments">Acknowledgments
</A>
81 <LI><A HREF=
"manual.html#Incompatibilities">Incompatibilities with Previous Versions
</A>
82 <LI><A HREF=
"idx.html">Index
</A>
88 Wed Jul
7 13:
36:
24 EST
1999
89 by
<A HREF=
"http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/">lhf
</A>.