Nov 20, 2013 · In Lua's case, the language is intended to be an embedded scripting language, so any changes that make the language more complex or potentially make the compiler/runtime …

I have seen the hash character '#' being added to the front of variables a lot in Lua. What does it do? EXAMPLE -- sort AIs in currentlevel table.sort (level.ais, function (a,b) return a.y < b...

Because control structures in Lua only consider nil and false to be false, and anything else to be true, this will always enter the if statement, which is not what you want either. There is no way …

May 2, 2012 · Any idea why this is wrong in Lua? if Pieza == 1 then if Rotacion == 1 then Piezas = Cuadrado1 else if Rotacion == 2 then Piezas =

Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and …

May 3, 2013 · There is a nice article on lua-users wiki about ternary operator, together with problem explanation and several solutions.

Is there a common way to get the current time in or with milliseconds? There is os.time(), but it only provides full seconds.

45 If you are splitting a string in Lua, you should try the string.gmatch () or string.sub () methods. Use the string.sub () method if you know the index you wish to split the string at, or use the …

As for the pure Lua solutions, let me share this small benchmark, I've made. It covers every provided answer to this date and adds a few optimizations. Still, the basic thing to consider is: …

The Lua authors felt that continue was only one of a number of possible new control flow mechanisms (the fact that it cannot work with the scope rules of repeat/until was a secondary …