Re: state of the Lua nation on resource cleanup

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

>> I do not see why the need for the <scoped_statements>. It would be
>> simpler to add only a new form of locals. Something like
>>
>>  local finalized f, g = ...
>>
>> that calls ":close()" (or __gc??) when it goes out of scope.  Of  
>> course,
>> you can (should?) use a conventional do-end around it:
>
> And all of that can easily be done using token modifiers.
>
> Case solved?  :)

I do not see how this can be done with token modifiers, if we want to
handle exceptional exits too.

-- Roberto