Nov 20, 2013 · In Lua's case, the language is intended to be an embedded scripting language, so any changes that make the language more complex or potentially make the compiler/runtime …

I have seen the hash character '#' being added to the front of variables a lot in Lua. What does it do? EXAMPLE -- sort AIs in currentlevel table.sort (level.ais, function (a,b) return a.y < b...

Because control structures in Lua only consider nil and false to be false, and anything else to be true, this will always enter the if statement, which is not what you want either. There is no way …

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Apr 15, 2017 · Is there a common way to get the current time in or with milliseconds? There is os.time(), but it only provides full seconds.

I want to make a command that would kill a player you specify. Let's say I type &quot;kill/Paul&quot;. Now I want to kill the player with the name Paul. This is my command …

I've been studying Lua for around a week now, and I'm really curious of how I would do this. Basically (for now, and learning purposes), I just want to make a GUI with 2 buttons, 1 to start …

@rboy true but the point is, in Lua assigning nil to a table key means deleting it. There's no way to distinguish between keys with nil values and keys with no value, regardless of method.

Aug 19, 2013 · 15 If your Lua uses double precision IEC-559 (aka IEEE-754) floats, as most do, and your numbers are relatively small (the method is guaranteed to work for inputs between -2 …