This Manual is the official definition of Lua 5.1.
This printed version contains the full text of the eletronic version, available at http: //www.lua.org/manual/..
Lua is implemented as a library, and is highly portable, being written in clean C (that is, in the common subset of ANSI C and C++).
Lua is intended to be used as a powerful, light-weight scripting language for any program that needs one.
It also offers good support for object-oriented programming, functional programming, and data-driven programming.
Lua is an extension programming language designed to support general procedural programming with data description facilities.
It covers Lua\'s syntax and semantics, the full API with C, and the standard libraries.
This Manual is the official definition of Lua 5.1
