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lua: Learning Official Doc notes
dynamically typed vars:
basic types: nil, boolean, number, string, function, userdata, thread & table.
where nil has only one value, is mainly to differ from other types. absense of useful info
bool: false & true. so false & nil are both make a conditional false
number: int & floating point, 2 subtypes, rules to when to use which. also converting automatically, standard lua use 64-bit num. but can re-compile lua to use 32bit. (see luaconf.h
string: immutable sequence of bytes, containing all info in 8-bit value. encoding-agnostic (nice !
calling functions written in lua/c.
userdata: store any c data. raw memory. 2 kinds of userdata: full userdata: object; light userdata: pointer value. this type of data has no predefined ops, only to assign or identity test. It cannot be created or modifiied in lua. only through C api. guarentees the integrity. But using metatables, user can define ops for full userdata.
thread: represents independent threads of execution and used to implement coroutines. its not same as os‘s threads... coroutines are supported on all systems. even on no thread systems..
table: assoc. arrays. map? yes. with tables, arrays can be indexed through values other than numbers, but not nil or NaN. where NaN is actually number typed and to represent INF. but the key value can be anything except nil.. pathetic.. and conversely.. very odd.. any key not belonging to a table has an associated value nil. a.name is equal to a["name"]. -- syntax sugar
sequence
concept: equal without metamethods.. a.i, a.j refer to the same obj iff. i, j EWM. however, a.2 and a.2.0 refer to the same obj.. because float value which is actually a int will be automatically convert to the int.. so a.2.0 is actually a.2 .. table fields can be of any type.. including functions, tables can carry methods
tables, functions, threads, full userdata values are objs and refer to the address where locates. functions manipulate these refs only return the refer to these values, not modifying
function: type(), this returns a string describing the type of value..
lua: Learning Official Doc notes