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*Programming in Lua* Book Available Online
Hopefuly this isnt a repost...
The Book "Programming in LUA" is now available online:
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Enjoy, and please consider buying a copy.
T'is a top book, I've had a copy for a couple of weeks now, certainly improved my understanding of Lua a great deal, well worth the money.
My copy shipped yesterday! :)
-------------------------Rayoom Sledge Hammer Productions - Programmer
Nice book, I hardly knew anything about lua but that book is a good introduction. The multiple return values/ multiple assignments/ variable argument system is way cool. Does anyone know how these mystical 'tables' that work efficiently at different sizes are implemented? Binary trees? Growing hash tables?
Probably a balanced tree, like C++ uses in std::map. The Lua source code is open though, so why not take a look for yourself?
> The Lua source code is open though, so why not take a look for yourself?
Probably because I am lazy. No actually that is a good idea. The guy who wrote the book (that is the guy who designed the language, right?) makes those tables sound like they solve all our problems. I'm curious. They are used in neat ways, I wouldn't have thought 'everything is a table' was a viable way to design a language.
Probably because I am lazy. No actually that is a good idea. The guy who wrote the book (that is the guy who designed the language, right?) makes those tables sound like they solve all our problems. I'm curious. They are used in neat ways, I wouldn't have thought 'everything is a table' was a viable way to design a language.
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