lua编程第4版：从基础到深入

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"《Programming in Lua 4th Edition》是一本由Roberto Ierusalimschy撰写的权威指南，专注于Lua编程语言的详细介绍。本书针对的是第四版，发行日期为2017年3月18日，其内容涵盖了Lua语言的基础知识和进阶特性。它提供了一个清晰、便于阅读的目录，特别适合那些希望深入学习或熟悉Lua语言的读者。第1章“Getting Started”引导读者步入Lua的世界，包括如何开始编写代码（Chunks）、一些基本的语法规则（如lexical conventions）以及全局变量的概念。接着，章节介绍了Lua中的数据类型和值，包括nil、布尔值等，并重点讲解了Lua的独有特性—— Stand-Alone Interpreter，即独立解释器。在第2章“Interlude: The Eight-Queen Puzzle”中，作者通过一个经典问题引入更高级的逻辑思维和算法应用，以实际问题来演示Lua在解决复杂问题上的能力。第3章“Numbers”深入讨论数值操作，涉及数值表示法、算术运算符、关系运算符、数学库中的随机数生成、四舍五入函数以及数值类型的转换和运算优先级。书中还特别提到了Lua与整数处理的关系。第4章“Strings”详述字符串处理，包括字符串字面量、长字符串、类型转换以及Lua的强大字符串库，涵盖了Unicode字符集的支持，使得处理多语言文本变得简单。第5章“Tables”是Lua的核心数据结构，涵盖了表的索引、构造、数组、列表和序列的概念，以及如何遍历和安全访问表元素。此外，还介绍了Table Library，提供了丰富的表格操作工具。第6章“Functions”则是关于Lua函数的深入解析，包括多返回值、函数定义和调用的细节，以及如何利用函数实现高级编程技巧。《Programming in Lua 4th Edition》是一本全面的教程，从基础语法到高级特性，为读者提供了一个系统的学习路径，帮助他们熟练掌握Lua语言并应用于实际项目中。无论是初学者还是经验丰富的开发者，这本书都是提升Lua技能的宝贵资源。"

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started ................................................................................................................ 4

Chunks ...................................................................................................................... 4

Some Lexical Conventions ........................................................................................... 6

Global Variables ......................................................................................................... 7

Types and Values ........................................................................................................ 7

Nil .................................................................................................................... 8

Booleans ............................................................................................................ 8

The Stand-Alone Interpreter .......................................................................................... 9

2. Interlude: The Eight-Queen Puzzle .................................................................................... 12

3. Numbers ....................................................................................................................... 15

Numerals .................................................................................................................. 15

Arithmetic Operators .................................................................................................. 16

Relational Operators .................................................................................................. 17

The Mathematical Library ........................................................................................... 18

Random-number generator .................................................................................. 18

Rounding functions ............................................................................................ 18

Representation Limits ................................................................................................. 19

Conversions .............................................................................................................. 21

Precedence ............................................................................................................... 22

Lua Before Integers ................................................................................................... 22

4. Strings ......................................................................................................................... 24

Literal strings ............................................................................................................ 24

Long strings ............................................................................................................. 25

Coercions ................................................................................................................. 26

The String Library ..................................................................................................... 27

Unicode ................................................................................................................... 29

5. Tables .......................................................................................................................... 33

Table Indices ............................................................................................................ 33

Table Constructors ..................................................................................................... 35

Arrays, Lists, and Sequences ....................................................................................... 36

Table Traversal ......................................................................................................... 38

Safe Navigation ......................................................................................................... 38

The Table Library ..................................................................................................... 39

6. Functions ...................................................................................................................... 42

Multiple Results ........................................................................................................ 43

Variadic Functions ..................................................................................................... 45

The function table.unpack .................................................................................... 47

Proper Tail Calls ....................................................................................................... 48

7. The External World ........................................................................................................ 50

The Simple I/O Model ............................................................................................... 50

The Complete I/O Model ............................................................................................ 53

Other Operations on Files ........................................................................................... 54

Other System Calls .................................................................................................... 55

Running system commands ................................................................................. 55

8. Filling some Gaps .......................................................................................................... 57

Local Variables and Blocks ......................................................................................... 57

Control Structures ...................................................................................................... 58

if then else ....................................................................................................... 58

while ............................................................................................................... 59

repeat ............................................................................................................. 59

Numerical for ................................................................................................... 60

Chapter 1. Getting Started

To keep with tradition, our first program in Lua just prints "Hello World":

print("Hello World")

If you are using the stand-alone Lua interpreter, all you have to do to run your first program is to call the

interpreter —usually named lua or lua5.3— with the name of the text file that contains your program.

If you save the above program in a file hello.lua, the following command should run it:

% lua hello.lua

As a more complex example, the next program defines a function to compute the factorial of a given

number, asks the user for a number, and prints its factorial:

-- defines a factorial function

function fact (n)

if n == 0 then

return 1

else

return n * fact(n - 1)

end

print("enter a number:")

a = io.read("*n") -- reads a number

print(fact(a))

Chunks

We call each piece of code that Lua executes, such as a file or a single line in interactive mode, a chunk.

A chunk is simply a sequence of commands (or statements).

A chunk can be as simple as a single statement, such as in the “Hello World” example, or it can be composed

of a mix of statements and function definitions (which are actually assignments, as we will see later), such

as the factorial example. A chunk can be as large as we wish. Because Lua is used also as a data-description

language, chunks with several megabytes are not uncommon. The Lua interpreter has no problems at all

with large chunks.

Instead of writing your program to a file, you can run the stand-alone interpreter in interactive mode. If

you call lua without any arguments, you will get its prompt:

% lua

Thereafter, each command that you type (such as print "Hello World") executes immediately after

you enter it. To exit the interactive mode and the interpreter, just type the end-of-file control character

(ctrl-D in POSIX, ctrl-Z in Windows), or call the function os.exit, from the Operating System

library —you have to type os.exit().

Starting in version 5.3, we can enter expressions directly in the interactive mode, and Lua will print their

values:

Getting Started

% lua

> math.pi / 4 --> 0.78539816339745

> a = 15

> a^2 --> 225

> a + 2 --> 17

In older versions, we need to precede these expressions with an equals sign:

% lua5.2

> a = 15

> = a^2 --> 225

For compatibility, Lua 5.3 still accepts these equals signs.

To run that code as a chunk (not in interactive mode), we must enclose the expressions inside calls to

print:

print(math.pi / 4)

a = 15

print(a^2)

print(a + 2)

Lua usually interprets each line that we type in interactive mode as a complete chunk or expression. How-

ever, if it detects that the line is not complete, it waits for more input, until it has a complete chunk. This

way, we can enter a multi-line definition, such as the factorial function, directly in interactive mode. How-

ever, it is usually more convenient to put such definitions in a file and then call Lua to run the file.

We can use the -i option to instruct Lua to start an interactive session after running a given chunk:

% lua -i prog

A command line like this one will run the chunk in the file prog and then prompt for interaction. This is

especially useful for debugging and manual testing. At the end of this chapter, we will see other options

for the stand-alone interpreter.

Another way to run chunks is with the function dofile, which immediately executes a file. For instance,

suppose we have a file lib1.lua with the following code:

function norm (x, y)

return math.sqrt(x^2 + y^2)

end

function twice (x)

return 2.0 * x

end

Then, in interactive mode, we can type this code:

> dofile("lib1.lua") -- load our library

> n = norm(3.4, 1.0)

> twice(n) --> 7.0880180586677

The function dofile is useful also when we are testing a piece of code. We can work with two windows:

one is a text editor with our program (in a file prog.lua, say) and the other is a console running Lua

Getting Started

in interactive mode. After saving a modification in our program, we execute dofile("prog.lua")

in the Lua console to load the new code; then we can exercise the new code, calling its functions and

printing the results.

Some Lexical Conventions

Identifiers (or names) in Lua can be any string of letters, digits, and underscores, not beginning with a

digit; for instance

i j i10 _ij

aSomewhatLongName _INPUT

You should avoid identifiers starting with an underscore followed by one or more upper-case letters (e.g.,

_VERSION); they are reserved for special uses in Lua. Usually, I reserve the identifier _ (a single under-

score) for dummy variables.

The following words are reserved; we cannot use them as identifiers:

and break do else elseif

end false for function goto

if in local nil not

or repeat return then true

until while

Lua is case-sensitive: and is a reserved word, but And and AND are two different identifiers.

A comment starts anywhere with two consecutive hyphens (--) and runs until the end of the line. Lua

also offers long comments, which start with two hyphens followed by two opening square brackets and

run until the first occurrence of two consecutive closing square brackets, like here:

--[[A multi-line

long comment

]]

A common trick that we use to comment out a piece of code is to enclose the code between --[[ and

--]], like here:

--[[

print(10) -- no action (commented out)

--]]

To reactivate the code, we add a single hyphen to the first line:

---[[

print(10) --> 10

--]]

In the first example, the --[[ in the first line starts a long comment, and the two hyphens in the last line

are still inside that comment. In the second example, the sequence ---[[ starts an ordinary, single-line

comment, so that the first and the last lines become independent comments. In this case, the print is

outside comments.

Lua needs no separator between consecutive statements, but we can use a semicolon if we wish. Line

breaks play no role in Lua's syntax; for instance, the following four chunks are all valid and equivalent:

Long comments can be more complex than that, as we will see in the section called “Long strings”.

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