Re: Garbage Collector

[Nicolas Noble <pixel@...>]

> Nicolas Noble wrote:
> > Pah! Forget it. I read the manual a bit deeper, and I understood it works
> > _only_ for userdatas, not for tables. Really sorry for having wasted your
> > time ^^;
>
> Ah yes, sorry, I forgot that detail because I routed around it...
> let me try to remember how. :)
>
> You can still make a __gc that works on tables, by putting
> a unique userdata (with the real gc method on it, as proxy)
> in a global table WEAKLY keyed by the table which you want
> the __gc to activate for.

Yep, I immediately thought of something like this ;-)

It works quite fine actually, thanks for your help and time!

  -- Nicolas Noble