Re: Lua C API prefix naming conventions

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Marc Lepage once stated:
> 
> Anyways, what I've been wanting to do is make my own functions which work
> like Lua functions. For example, Lua has lua_isstring, lua_pushstring,
> lua_tostring, luaL_optstring, and luaL_checkstring. For my own type 'foo'
> (generally a full userdata), I'd like to provide lua_isfoo, lua_ispushfoo,
> lua_tofoo, lua_optfoo, and lua_checkfoo.

  In my own code, for functions that are generic Lua routines (not limited
to a single module) is to prefix the function with 'llua_':

	llua_pushfoo()
	llua_tofoo()

  And for modules:

	foolua_this();
	foolua_that();

(and I just started doing this)

	foometa___index();
	foometa___newindex();
	foometa___gc();

> My question is whether there is a documented list of Lua prefixes reserved
> for use by Lua. It seems like using more than one uppercase letter is safe,
> I'm just curious.

  +1.

  -spc