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Function names are often of the form p.myFunctionName, where p is the table from the return p at the bottom of your program. The reason for this is that you can only access functions that are entries in this table from the original #invoke statement. Functions for local use within the program can have any name.
Line continuation – escapes a newline to continue a statement on the next line Some languages define a special character as a terminator while some, called line-oriented , rely on the newline . Typically, a line-oriented language includes a line continuation feature whereas other languages have no need for line continuation since newline is ...
Lua (as of 5.1) provides a limited form of multiple quoting, particularly to allow nesting of long comments or embedded strings. Normally one uses [[ and ]] to delimit literal strings (initial newline stripped, otherwise raw), but the opening brackets can include any number of equal signs, and only closing brackets with the same number of signs ...
Scribunto Lua reference manual; Programming in Lua; Introduction to Lua patterns; About regex. Lua "patterns" are based on Regex (Patterns are a reduced set of regex). Help:Lua metamodules: Lua in Wikipedia has several meta-modules available that can make core functions easily available.
While this page doesn't currently have anything to say about semicolons, in Lua code they're generally avoided except when necessary (i.e. a statement ending with a function call is followed by a statement starting with a parenthesized expression) or when multiple statements are on a line.
This page explains different methods for creating, controlling and preventing line breaks and word wraps in Wikipedia articles and pages.. When a paragraph or line of text is too long to fit on one line, web browsers, like many other programs, automatically wrap the text to the next line.
Marshalling data between C and Lua functions is also done using the stack. To call a Lua function, arguments are pushed onto the stack, and then the lua_call is used to call the actual function. When writing a C function to be directly called from Lua, the arguments are read from the stack. Here is an example of calling a Lua function from C: