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author Franklin Schmidt <fschmidt@gmail.com>
date Sat, 16 Apr 2016 22:37:47 -0600
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103 <h3 heading><a name="meta">Metatables and Metamethods</a></h3> 103 <h3 heading><a name="meta">Metatables and Metamethods</a></h3>
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105 <p>Luan only has metatable for tables, not for other types.</p> 105 <p>Luan only has metatable for tables, not for other types.</p>
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107 <p>Luan does not support the <b>call</b> metamethod. There is nothing that one can do with the <b>call</b> metamethod that can't be done more cleanly with closures, so this was left out.</p>
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107 <h3 heading><a name="gc">Garbage Collection</a></h3> 109 <h3 heading><a name="gc">Garbage Collection</a></h3>
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109 <p>Luan uses Java garbage collection. Luan has no special garbage collection methods.</p> 111 <p>Luan uses Java garbage collection. Luan has no special garbage collection methods.</p>
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111 <p>Luan does not yet have weak tables but this will be added.</p> 113 <p>Luan does not yet have weak tables but this will be added.</p>
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117 <h2 heading><a name="lang">The Language</a></h2> 119 <h2 heading><a name="lang">The Language</a></h2>
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119 <h3 heading><a name="lex">Lexical Conventions</a></h3> 121 <h3 heading><a name="lex">Lexical Conventions</a></h3>
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121 <p>Unlike Lua, Luan generally considers the end of a line to be the end of a statement. This catches errors and encourages readability. The exception to this is in paranthesis <em>(...)</em> where the end of line is treated as white space.</p> 123 <p>Unlike Lua, Luan considers the end of a line to be the end of a statement. This catches errors and encourages readability. If you want to continue a statement on another line, you can use a backslash followed by a newline which will be treated as white space.</p>
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123 <p>Luan has exactly the same set of keywords as Lua and has the same other lexical conventions.</p> 125 <p>Luan has exactly the same set of keywords as Lua and has the same other lexical conventions.</p>
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125 <h3 heading><a name="vars">Variables</a></h3> 127 <h3 heading><a name="vars">Variables</a></h3>
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198 <h4 heading><a name="fn_calls">Function Calls</a></h4> 200 <h4 heading><a name="fn_calls">Function Calls</a></h4>
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200 <p>Luan does not support Lua's <code>v:name(args)</code> style object-oriented function call. Object oriented programming is done in Luan using closures, so this feature is not needed.</p> 202 <p>Luan does not support Lua's <code>v:name(args)</code> style object-oriented function call. Object oriented programming is done in Luan using closures, so this feature is not needed.</p>
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204 <p>Luan doesn't support <em>proper tail calls</em>. Because Java doesn't support this cleanly, this was left out.</p>
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202 <h4 heading><a name="template_expr">Template Expressions</a></h4> 206 <h4 heading><a name="template_expr">Template Expressions</a></h4>
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204 <p>Template expressions are a Luan addition that don't exist in Lua. See <a href="manual.html#template_expr">Template Expressions</a> in the Luan Reference Manual.</p> 208 <p>Template expressions are a Luan addition that don't exist in Lua. See <a href="manual.html#template_expr">Template Expressions</a> in the Luan Reference Manual.</p>
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206 </body> 210 </body>