Re: [Proposal] Simplified Lua Reference

[Paul Ducklin <pducklin@...>]

I’m not sure what you are describing is a “reference manual”.

Sounds like you are after an introductory guide, maybe? 

There’s the excellent Programming in Lua book for learning about the language, but it’s not free and not brief. (There’s an old version available online for free but it is based on Lua 5.0, which is a bit dated these days.) 

There are also various quick reference guides written over the years by contributors on this list... maybe one of those might be helpful?

> On 20 Sep 2020, at 17:24, Soni They/Them L. <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The Lua reference manual includes things like BNF everywhere and some
> stuff like "they can be used to represent ordinary arrays, lists, symbol
> tables, sets, records, graphs, trees, etc."
> 
> It seems like a good idea to have a reference manual that translates the
> BNF to english in a way that's easy for someone who doesn't know
> programming to understand, and maybe omits things like the above, as
> they add unnecessary complexity.
> 
> And arguably the stuff like "they can be used to represent ordinary
> arrays, lists, symbol tables, sets, records, graphs, trees, etc." isn't
> a good fit for a reference manual anyway, but mainly this is about the BNF.