Lua编程语言第四版指南

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"Programming in Lua (Fourth Edition)" "Programming in Lua"是Roberto Ierusalimschy撰写的一本关于Lua编程语言的专业书籍，适用于具有较好英文能力的读者。这本书的第四版详细介绍了Lua语言的基础和高级特性，对于学习和理解Lua编程语言具有很高的价值。在书中，作者首先介绍了Lua的基本概念。"Getting Started"章节涵盖了如何开始使用Lua，包括程序块（Chunks）的结构，以及一些词法约定，如全局变量。书中的"Types and Values"部分讲解了Lua中的各种数据类型，例如nil、布尔值和数字。nil在Lua中用于表示无值或不存在的值，而布尔值只有true和false两种。此外，书中还提到了独立运行的解释器，允许用户直接交互式地执行Lua代码。接下来，作者通过一个"Interlude: The Eight-Queen Puzzle"的插曲来演示实际问题的解决，用以展示编程技巧。"Numbers"章节深入讨论了数值，包括数字的表示、算术运算符、关系运算符，以及内置的数学库。这个库提供了随机数生成、舍入函数等功能，并且探讨了数值表示的限制。书中还讲述了不同类型的数值转换及其优先级。 "Strings"部分阐述了字符串的使用，包括字面量字符串和长字符串的表示方法，以及字符串与其他类型之间的强制转换。作者还介绍了字符串库，用于处理字符串的各种操作。同时，书里还讨论了Unicode支持，以便处理多语言字符。 "Tables"章节是Lua的一大特色，表格在Lua中既是数组又是关联数组。它详细介绍了表的索引、构造器，以及数组、列表和序列的概念。表的遍历、安全导航以及内置的表库也是这一章的重点，这些工具帮助开发者更高效地操作和管理数据。 "Functions"章节涉及函数的定义、调用和返回值。Lua支持多返回值，使得函数可以更加灵活。书中还介绍了闭包和匿名函数，以及函数作为第一类值的概念，这意味着函数可以在变量中存储、作为参数传递和作为返回值。此外，书中还有关于"Coroutines"、"Metatables and Metamethods"、"Modules"、"Object-Oriented Programming"等高级主题，以及"Error Handling"和"Debugging"等实用技巧，这些都是Lua程序员必须掌握的重要概念。 "Programming in Lua"第四版是一本全面介绍Lua编程语言的权威指南，无论你是初学者还是有经验的开发者，都能从中获得丰富的知识和实践经验。

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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