Lua Programming/Index

This is an alphabetical index of the book. A Allocation Arithmetic operations Arguments Arrays Assertion Assignment Associative arrays Augmented assignment Automatic memory management B Binary operators Bit shifts Bitwise AND Bitwise NOT Bitwise operations Bitwise OR Bitwise XOR Blocks Booleans break statement busted Bytecode C Captures Chained assignment Character classes Character ranges Character sets Chunks Code annotations Coercion Collaborative multithreading Comments Compound assignment Concatenation Conditional statement Condition-controlled loops Coroutines Count-controlled loops D Debugging Decimal precision errors Deprecation Dictionaries do statement Dynamic testing E else block elseif block Empty captures Empty statements Errors Expressions Extended Backus–Naur form F Fields Float division Floats Floor division Foreach loop Frontier patterns Functions G Garbage collection Generic for loop H Hash maps Hash tables Hello, world! I Incrementation Identifiers if statement Index Infinite loops Integers Integration testing Iterators J K Kepler Project Key L Left shift Literals Local variables Logical errors Long brackets Long comments Loops Loop variables luac LuaJIT Luaunit M Main thread Maps Metalanguage Metamethods Metatables Methods Modulo operation MoonScript Multiple assignment N Names Nil Numbers Numeric for loops O Operator precedence Operators P Parallel assignment Patterns Pattern items Parameters Precedence Protected calls Q R Registers Regular expressions Relational operators Replacement strings Return statement Right shift S Scope self parameter Semantic errors Shake Short comments Simultaneous assignment Software testing Sorting tables Stack Stack overflow Statements State values Static testing Strings String concatenation String manipulation String matching String patterns Symbol tables Syntactic errors Syntax System testing T Type constraints Table constructors Tables Terra Test cases Transformation function Tuples Type checking Types Type safety Type system U Unary operators Unit testing Unpacking tables V Vararg functions Variadic functions W Weak references Weak tables White-box testing X Y Z Lua API There is a separate index for the functions and variables that are part of the Lua API. This index points to parts of the book where functions or variables in the API are mentioned. Basic functions assert collectgarbage dofile error getmetatable ipairs load loadfile next pairs pcall print rawequal rawget rawlen rawset select setmetatable tonumber tostring type xpcall Coroutine manipulation coroutine.create coroutine.resume coroutine.running coroutine.status coroutine.wrap coroutine.yield String manipulation string.dump string.find string.gmatch string.gsub string.len string.lower string.reverse string.sub string.upper Table manipulation table.foreach table.foreachi table.sort table.unpack Glossary