Re: new user

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Levente Kovacs once stated:
> Hello List,
> 
> 
> I am a new Lua user, so please forgive my ignorance.
> 
> I have a few question:
> 
> 1. I would like to know how to push multiple variables on the stack (from
> Lua).

  In Lua it's:

	function foo()
	  return 1,2,3
	end

	x,y,z = foo()
	print(x,y,z)

> 2. Can I access unix time in Lua? Can I use the same functions like
> gettimeofday(), localtime_r() calls? Or does it have different calls for
> time?

  From Lua, os.time() returns the current time, as it's a wrapper around the
standard C library function time().  You use os.date() to convert the time
to a string.

  -spc