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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>LuaSocket: Network support for the Lua language</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="reference.css" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>
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<div class=header>
<hr>
<center>
<table summary="LuaSocket logo">
<tr><td align=center><a href="http://www.lua.org">
<img border=0 alt="LuaSocket" src="luasocket.png">
</a></td></tr>
<tr><td align=center valign=top>Network support for the Lua language
</td></tr>
</table>
<p class=bar>
<a href="home.html">home</a> &middot;
<a href="home.html#download">download</a> &middot;
<a href="introduction.html">introduction</a> &middot;
<a href="reference.html">reference</a>
</p>
</center>
<hr>
</div>
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<h2 id=socket>The LuaSocket namespace</h2>
<p>
The <tt>socket</tt> namespace contains the namespace tables for all
LuaSocket modules as well as function that didn't belong in any specific
module, functions that are so commonly used that deserve a shortcut and a
few constants.
</p>
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<p class=name id=debug>
socket.<b>debug</b>
</p>
<p class=description>
This constant is set to <tt><b>true</b></tt> if the library was compiled
with debug support.
</p>
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<p class=name id=protect>
socket.<b>protect(</b>function<b>)</b>
</p>
<p class=description>
Converts a function that throws exceptions into a safe function.
</p>
<p class=parameters>
<tt>Function</tt> is a function that calls
<a href=#try><tt>try</tt></a> to throw exceptions.
</p>
<p class=return>
The function an equivalent function that instead of throwing exceptoins,
returns <tt><b>nil</b></tt> followed by an error message.
</p>
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<p class=name id=try>
socket.<b>try(</b>ret<sub>1</sub>, ret<sub>2</sub> ... ret<sub>N</sub><b>)</b>
</p>
<p class=description>
Throws an exception in case of error.
</p>
<p class=parameters>
</b>Ret<sub>1</sub>, ret<sub>2</sub> ... ret<sub>N</sub> can be arbitrary
arguments, but are usually the return values of a function call that
nested with the call to <tt>try</tt>.
</p>
<p class=return>
The function returns ret<sub>1</sub>, ret<sub>2</sub> ... ret<sub>N</sub> if
ret<sub>1</sub> is not <tt><b>nil</b></tt>. Otherwise, calls <tt>error</tt>
passing ret<sub>2</sub>.
</p>
<pre class=example>
-- connects or throws an exception with the appropriate error message
c = socket.try(socket.connect("localhost", 80))
</pre>
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<p class=name id=version>
socket.<b>version</b>
</p>
<p class=description>
This constant has a string describing the current LuaSocket version.
</p>
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<div class=footer>
<hr>
<center>
<p class=bar>
<a href="home.html">home</a> &middot;
<a href="home.html#down">download</a> &middot;
<a href="introduction.html">introduction</a> &middot;
<a href="reference.html">reference</a>
</p>
<p>
<small>
Last modified by Diego Nehab on <br>
Sat Aug 9 01:00:41 PDT 2003
</small>
</p>
</center>
</div>
</body>
</html>