Lua datatypes: Difference between revisions
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* keys any lua value, except nil | |||
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Revision as of 20:43, 11 February 2024
Documentation
Primitives
Nil
nilis the absence of a valuenilwithin a table represents an absent keynilBoolean
true falseNumber
A single type number represents both 64-bit integers/floats.
123 123.4String
An immutable byte-sequence, encoding-agnostic.
All strings must fit iwthin a single integer.Function
Lua can call native lua, and C functions.
UserData
Represents a block of raw memory.
- full userdata -- an object with a block of memory managed by lua
- light userdata -- a C pointer value
Thread
Collections
Table
Associative arrays
- keys any lua value, except nil
- values may be any lua value, except nil
