Lua 5.3 Reference Manual

This reference manual is 103 pages long. The reference manual is the official definition of the Lua language. For a complete introduction to Lua programming see the book Programming in Lua by Roberto Ierusalimschy.Lua is a powerful fast lightweight embeddable scripting language. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically-typed runs by interpreting bytecode for a register-based virtual machine and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection making it ideal for configuration scripting and rapid prototyping.