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diff --git a/runtime/doc/if_lua.txt b/runtime/doc/if_lua.txt index 0660ffc73b..932564170d 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/if_lua.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/if_lua.txt @@ -114,8 +114,9 @@ functions may be found in |api-funcs.txt|. *luaeval()* The (dual) equivalent of "vim.eval" for passing Lua values to Vim is -"luaeval". "luaeval" takes an expression string and an optional argument and -returns the result of the expression. It is semantically equivalent in Lua to: +"luaeval". "luaeval" takes an expression string and an optional argument used +for _A inside expression and returns the result of the expression. It is +semantically equivalent in Lua to: > local chunkheader = "local _A = select(1, ...) return " function luaeval (expstr, arg) @@ -129,8 +130,8 @@ thrown if conversion of any of the remaining Lua types is attempted. Note 2: lua tables are used as both dictionaries and lists, thus making it impossible to determine whether empty table is meant to be empty list or empty -dictionary. To distinguish between these cases there is the following -agreement: +dictionary. Additionally lua does not have integer numbers. To distinguish +between these cases there is the following agreement: 0. Empty table is empty list. 1. Table with N incrementally growing integral numbers, starting from 1 and @@ -165,9 +166,9 @@ Examples: > :echo Rand(1,10) Note that currently second argument to `luaeval` undergoes VimL to lua -conversion, so changing resulting containers in lua do not affect values in -VimL. Return value is also always converted. When converting, -|msgpack-special-dict|s are treated specially. +conversion, so changing containers in lua do not affect values in VimL. Return +value is also always converted. When converting, |msgpack-special-dict|s are +treated specially. ============================================================================== vim:tw=78:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl: |