Re: C API parts I can skip ?

[Patrick <patrick@...>]

On 13-01-04 04:35 AM, Mateusz Czaplinski wrote:

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Patrick <patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org> wrote:

So the C API is very simple but that does not mean it is simple enough for me ;)

At risk of saying something obvious that you already know: Part IV of the freely available Programming in Lua 1st Edition is a fairly good gradual introduction to the C API: http://www.lua.org/pil/index.html#P4

It is written for Lua 5.0, but still highly relevant, and annotated in red with most important changes required for Lua 5.1 (and as for Lua 5.2, I believe most of the code will be valid too).

/Mateusz.

Hi Mateusz

Thanks for you post. I actually have all the Lua books(well about to order pil3). Actually thanks to cheap books at abebooks I have  lot of books. However something I have struggled with is putting all this reading to good use. I find working with actual code goes from super simple to complex too quickly. Knowing what I don't have to practice with gives me more time to practice with what I should.

Thanks again-Patrick