It does, actually. Lua uses tables as its underlying data structure in the same way that Lisp uses the list. This is where a lot of its power and simplicity com

It does, actually. Lua uses tables as its underlying data structure in the same way that Lisp uses the list. This is where a lot of its power and simplicity comes from. In fact, the language authors have stated how Lisp was one of their inspirations for the language. You can read about lua tables here: http://www.lua.org/pil/11.html http://www.lua.org/pil/11.html