The language uses spaces, tabs, and line breaks outside of string literals only as separators between tokens — they do not affect the interpretation of expressions.
The language has the following keywords:
and
false
nil
not
or
true
And the following operators:
String literals are written in either single or double-quotes. For example,
Integers are written either in decimal, octal, or hexadecimal. Hexadecimal numbers begin with the prefix 0x
, octal numbers begin with the prefix 0
. For example,
3
, 345
— decimal number
0xff
, 0xBEBADA
— hexadecimal number
07654321
— octal number
Real numbers are written either in conventional or exponential form. For example,
Comments begin with --
and continue to the end of the line. For example,
See the article about the syntax of expressions in the blocks: