Lua Goodies

There's a few goodies that are added to computers that normally don't exist with Lua.

Static Arrays

(since version 1.8-alpha)

Static arrays are like primitive arrays in Lua (which don't normally exist!). You can treat them like accessing a table with integral keys (myArray[1], myArray[2] etc), however:

• arrays cannot be resized
• arrays cannot have non-numerical keys
• arrays are not compatible with tables ({, } syntax and the table library).
• arrays are a unique type (static_array)

You can create a static array using the following code:

myArray = static_arr(16)

which will create an array of size 16.

The list Library

(since version 1.8-alpha)

There's a small library called list that you can use, it contains an implementation of a resizeable list in lua and a few helper functions. Check out its source code on a computer by opening /lib/list!