These are simple tests for Lua. Some of them contain useful code.

They are meant to be run to make sure Lua is built correctly and also

to be read, to see how Lua programs look.

Here is a one-line summary of each program:

bisect.lua bisection method for solving non-linear equations

cf.lua temperature conversion table (celsius to farenheit)

echo.lua echo command line arguments

env.lua environment variables as automatic global variables

factorial.lua factorial without recursion

fib.lua fibonacci function with cache

fibfor.lua fibonacci numbers with coroutines and generators

globals.lua report global variable usage

hello.lua the first program in every language

life.lua Conway's Game of Life

luac.lua bare-bones luac

printf.lua an implementation of printf

readonly.lua make global variables readonly

sieve.lua the sieve of of Eratosthenes programmed with coroutines

sort.lua two implementations of a sort function

table.lua make table, grouping all data for the same item

trace-calls.lua trace calls

trace-globals.lua trace assigments to global variables

xd.lua hex dump