Re: state of the Lua nation on resource cleanup

[Leo Razoumov <slonik.az@...>]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Petite Abeille wrote:
> On Jan 21, 2009, at 12:17 AM, Leo Razoumov wrote:
>
> > How to achieve such assurances short of wrapping everything else in a pcall 
> > (xpcall)?
>
> What's wrong with pcall?

For starters, pcall/xpcall do not play nicely with coroutines. 
You cannot yield across pcall/xpcall function boundaries.
This problem is addressed with coxpcall module in Kepler
but it is not part of official Lua distribution.

--Leo--