because a terra file is a lua file, so lua functions are allowed / encouraged. a terra function denotes a region of code with (slightly) different rules (array

because a terra file is a lua file, so lua functions are allowed / encouraged. a terra function denotes a region of code with (slightly) different rules (arrays indexed at 0, use of C apis, etc). Making all of lua low level is interesting, but that's not what this project was going for.