state package:hslua-core

Get the Lua state of this Lua computation.

An opaque structure that points to a thread and indirectly (through the thread) to the whole state of a Lua interpreter. The Lua library is fully reentrant: it has no global variables. All information about a state is accessible through this structure. Synonym for lua_State *. See lua_State.

Wrapper of a Lua state whose lifetime is managed by the Haskell garbage collector and has a finalizer attached. This means that the state does not have to be closed explicitly, but will be closed automatically when the value is garbage collected in Haskell.

Closes the Lua state and runs all finalizers associated with it. The state _may not_ be used after it has been closed.

Lua interpreter state

Creates a new Lua state that is under the control of the Haskell garbage collector.

Creates a new Lua state. It calls lua_newstate with an allocator based on the standard C realloc function and then sets a panic function (see §4.4 of the Lua 5.4 Reference Manual) that prints an error message to the standard error output in case of fatal errors. Wraps hsluaL_newstate. See also: luaL_newstate.

Runs a Lua action with a state that's managed by GC.