(global)

Supported platforms: android, ios, mac, pc
Available since: Gideros 2011.6

Description

Global scope of Lua environment

Methods assert - error if v nil or false, otherwise returns v collectgarbage - opts: stop, restart, collect, count, step, setpause, setstepmul dofile - executes as Lua chunk, default stdin, returns value error - terminates protected func, never returns getfenv - gets env, f can be a function or number(stack level) getmetatable - returns metatable of given object, otherwise nil ipairs - returns an iterator function, table t and 0 loadfile - loads chunk without execution, returns chunk as function, else nil plus error loadstring - loads string as chunk, returns chunk as function, else nil plus error next - returns next index,value pair, if index=nil(default-, returns first index pairs - returns the next function and table t plus a nil, iterates over all key-value pairs pcall - protected mode call, catches errors, returns status code first print - prints values to stdout using tostring rawequal - non-metamethod v1==v2, returns boolean rawget - non-metamethod get value of table[index], index != nil rawset - non-metamethod set value of table[index], index != nil require - loads package, updates _LOADED, returns boolean setfenv - sets env, f can be a function or number(stack level, default=1-, 0=global env setmetatable - sets metatable, nil to remove metatable tonumber - convert to number, returns number, nil if non-convertible, 2<=base<=36 tostring - convert to string, returns string type - returns type of v as a string unpack - returns all elements from list xpcall - pcall function f with new error handler err

Events Constants _G _VERSION