The lua authors felt that continue was only one of a number of possible new control flow mechanisms (the fact that it cannot work with the scope rules of repeat/until was a secondary factor. ) I have seen the hash character '#' being added to the front of variables a lot in lua. What does it do?

Because control structures in lua only consider nil and false to be false, and anything else to be true, this will always enter the if statement, which is not what you want either. There is no way that you … How to check if a table contains an element in lua? Asked 15 years, 11 months ago modified 4 years, 10 months ago viewed 326k times