Print all Lua reserved keywords

Question

With this code:

for n in pairs(_G) do print(n) end

I print the names of all global variables defined in the current environment.

Is there any way to print all Lua keywords (and,break,do,else,elseif,end,false,for,function,if,in,local,nil,not,or,repeat,return,then,true,until,while)?

Answer 1

No, as reserved keywords don't correspond to any objects in memory - they only exists in parser. See manual for each version for full list, typicaly under "Lexical Conventions". For example for Lua 5.1 it is located at http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#2.1