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| Sorry for the top post. I cannot recommend the Programming in Lua book enough. Learning from the Internet left holes in my understanding of Lua. When I finally read the book, everything was illuminated. It's the best $30 you can spend if you want to learn Lua. PIL is easy to read, concise, relevant to beginners and complete. Russ Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Virgin Mobile network.
Hello My basic understanding of functions is that they do something with values stored in container variables. I want a full list of these functions to read up what are they and what they do. For example I guess print is a function. io.read waits user input until Enter is hit on keyboard. Like this. function math does arithmetic using operators like +, -,*,/ and I guess others which I dont know about too. io.write takes the value stored in a variable where io runs it or evaluates it using a function and shoots it on screen post processing. where can I read these functions in entirety and examples of their use? Same thing for tables. I know to start a table I use {} but what are its uses in the context of practicality in a program except data entry. Also the arbitrary so called type userdata which briefly I skimmed I dont know what is it used for or examples of its use. Is there a source for all chapters in PIL where the mentioned definitions (array,value,function,metatable,etc..) are merged to form chunks explained head to toe? To the novice people like me? Beginners? Many thanks Adel
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