NAME

lua_setglobal — pops a value from the stack and sets it as the new value of global name, function indicator [-1, +0, e]

SYNOPSIS

#include <lua.h>

void
lua_setglobal(lua_State *L, const char *name);

DESCRIPTION

lua_setglobal() pops a value from the stack and sets it as the new value of global name. It is defined as a macro:

#define lua_setglobal(L,s) lua_setfield(L, LUA_GLOBALSINDEX, s)

SEE ALSO

Roberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, and Waldemar Celes, Lua 5.1 Reference Manual.

HISTORY

The lua_setglobal() manual page is based on Lua Reference Manual 5.1 and was created by Sergey Bronnikov.