Lua Quick Start Guide

Namespaces

Everything inside Lua Bridge must be declared within a namespace. These namespaces have no connection to C++ namespaces, and within Lua, they are just tables. The concept of a namespace is similar to the concept of a Lua module being loaded as a table.

A global namespace exists, and you can register functions, variables, and classes to that namespace, but it's considered bad practice. You can get the global namespace with the following call:

getGlobalNamespace(lua_State*)

Once you have the global namespace, you can create your own namespace inside it with the beginNamespace(const char*) call. This function takes a string with the name of the namespace as an argument. Once you are done working with the namespace, you must close ...