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Primitives
Nil
nil
is the absence of a valuenil
within a table represents an absent keynil
Boolean
true falseNumber
A single type number represents both 64-bit integers/floats.
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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.
Passed as a reference.
- full userdata -- an object with a block of memory managed by lua
- light userdata -- a C pointer value
Thread
Passed as a reference.
Collections
Table
Associative arrays, passed as references to an object.
- keys any lua value, except nil (including functions)
- values may be any lua value, except nil