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9 <H1>Reference Manual of the Programming Language
10 <A HREF="http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/lua/">Lua</A>
11 3.2</H1>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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54 <LI><A HREF="manual.html#5.">5 - The Application Program Interface</A>
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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>
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65 <LI><A HREF="manual.html#6.">6 - Predefined Functions and Libraries</A>
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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>
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72 <LI><A HREF="manual.html#7.">7 - The Debugger Interface</A>
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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>
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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>
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