Beginning Lua question

[dmurley]

I found in an example that term.out() is how output is generated to the Lua console. This function is not mentioned anywhere in the documentation for Lua that I have been looking at. Does anyone know where this function is documented? I would like to learn if I can output multiple variables in a formatted string. Thanks.

David

 

[martins]

Yes, you are right - there doesn't seem to be documentation for this function.
In short, the argument can either be a Lua string (so can be constructed with any Lua string operations for concatenation etc.), or, for convenience, one of a few recognised data types

- vector
- matrix
- boolean
- nil
- table
- user data (i.e. something constructed in C++ and treated by Lua as a black box)