Learning Lua

[Antoni]

I am mostly scripting in squirrel, some very basic stuff in pawn. Is Lua easy to learn like squirrel?

[DiSaMe]

Lua and Squirrel are quite similar. Like Squirrel, Lua is dynamically typed, and even local variables are defined in the same way (keyword 'local'). Also, I'm not sure, but tables look exactly the same to me. Block syntax is different (Squirrel uses C-like syntax, so it has { and }, while Lua uses words, such as 'then' and 'end'). In addition, Lua doesn't have classes, though you can use metatables to make tables work like classes. So if you know Squirrel, Lua should be easy to learn.

As for Pawn, it's harder than Lua since you have to care about data types and some other low-level stuff.

[Antoni]

Thanks for the help on that.

[PaiN^]

These are some topics that may help you to learn Lua :

- viewtopic.php?f=148&t=40809

- viewtopic.php?f=91&t=39678

And don't forget to visit the wiki every time you need help with any function =) .