Returns the elements from the given table. This function is equivalent to
return list[i], list[i+1], ···, list[j]
except that the above code can be written only for a fixed number of elements. By default, i is 1 and j is the length of the list, as defined by the length operator (see §2.5.5).
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_VERSION
A global variable (not a function) that holds a string containing the current interpreter version. The current contents of this variable is "Lua 5.1".
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xpcall (f, err)
This function is similar to pcall, except that you can set a new error handler.
xpcall calls function f in protected mode, using err as the error handler. Any error inside f is not propagated; instead, xpcall catches the error, calls the err function with the original error object, and returns a status code. Its first result is the status code (a boolean), which is true if the call succeeds without errors. In this case, xpcall also returns all results from the call, after this first result. In case of any error, xpcall returns false plus the result from err.
5.2 - Coroutine Manipulation
The operations related to coroutines comprise a sub-library of the basic library and come inside the table coroutine. See §2.11 for a general description of coroutines.
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coroutine.create (f)
Creates a new coroutine, with body f. f must be a Lua function. Returns this new coroutine, an object with type "thread".
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coroutine.resume (co [, val1, ···])
Starts or continues the execution of coroutine co. The first time you resume a coroutine, it starts running its body. The values val1, ··· are passed as the arguments to the body function. If the coroutine has yielded, resume restarts it; the values val1, ··· are passed as the results from the yield.
If the coroutine runs without any errors, resume returns true plus any values passed to yield (if the coroutine yields) or any values returned by the body function (if the coroutine terminates). If there is any error, resume returns false plus the error message.
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coroutine.running ()
Returns the running coroutine, or nil when called by the main thread.
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coroutine.status (co)
Returns the status of coroutine co, as a string: "running", if the coroutine is running (that is, it called status); "suspended", if the coroutine is suspended in a call to yield, or if it has not started running yet; "normal" if the coroutine is active but not running (that is, it has resumed another coroutine); and "dead" if the coroutine has finished its body function, or if it has stopped with an error.
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coroutine.wrap (f)
5. Standard libraries
Start from the beginning
