1Lutok is a lightweight C++ API library for Lua. 2 3Lutok provides thin C++ wrappers around the Lua C API to ease the 4interaction between C++ and Lua. These wrappers make intensive use of 5RAII to prevent resource leakage, expose C++-friendly data types, report 6errors by means of exceptions and ensure that the Lua stack is always 7left untouched in the face of errors. The library also provides a small 8subset of miscellaneous utility functions built on top of the wrappers. 9 10Lutok focuses on providing a clean and safe C++ interface; the drawback 11is that it is not suitable for performance-critical environments. In 12order to implement error-safe C++ wrappers on top of a Lua C binary 13library, Lutok adds several layers or abstraction and error checking 14that go against the original spirit of the Lua C API and thus degrade 15performance. 16 17For further information on the contents of this distribution file, 18please refer to the following other documents: 19 20* AUTHORS: List of authors and contributors to this project. 21* COPYING: License information. 22* INSTALL: Compilation and installation instructions. 23* NEWS: List of major changes between formal releases. 24 25For general project information, please visit: 26 27 https://github.com/jmmv/lutok/ 28