mmutable after initialization ("no re-seating of
references"). For initialization purposes or when passing values to
reference parameters, they are treated like pointers. Note that unlike
in C++, there's no way to implement automatic reference generation of
variables under the Lua language semantics. If you want to call a
function with a reference parameter, you need to explicitly pass a
one-element array.
</p>

<h3 id="convert_between">Conversions between C&nbsp;types</h3>
<p>
These conversion rules are mo