Re: Running Lua from within a Window Program

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 20.09.2016 um 15:11 schröbte Viacheslav Usov:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Thijs Schreijer <thijs@thijsschreijer.nl>
> wrote:
>
> > The most common problem is passing objects around (file handles etc.)
> their internal structures have changed in between versions and hence can
> cause trouble.
>
> To which Shmuel Zeigerman objected, saying that Lua's API does not use any
> such objects, which, I think, is correct.

Lua has an io library (which usually is bundled with the Lua API and 
thus linked to the same runtime), and some popular third-party modules 
(e.g. luaposix and luafilesystem) can work with Lua file handles.

> Cheers,
> V.

Philipp