Lua 5.1 Reference Manual

This manual is the official definition of Lua 5.1. It covers Lua's syntax and semantics the full API with C and the standard libraries. Lua is an extension programming language designed to support general procedural programming with data description facilities. It also offers good support for object-oriented programming functional programming and data-driven programming. Lua is intended to be used as a powerful light-weight scripting language for any program that needs one. Lua is implemented as a library and is highly portable being written in clean C (that is in the common subset of ANSI C and C++). This printed version contains the full text of the eletronic version available at http: //www.lua.org/manual/.