It was thus said that the Great Lorenzo Donati once stated:
Sorry for expressing my thought so badly, but mine was a sort of
half-baked "philosophical" rambling on Lua design about userdata :-)
So any enlightment is welcome (I only played shortly with C API and
although I know C, I cannot really call myself a C programmer, thus it
may well be that I missed completely the point of userdata and why their
usefulness is limited to C side!)
It's used to add support for other data types. I have code that
implements network addresses as a "userdata" for Lua [1]. I can do things
like:
