Re: customizable Lua "panic" behavior

["Jim Mathies" <jamesmathies@...>]

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| You don't have to predict what they do.  Just make sure that a possible
| error is caught.  How do you start the users code?  With dostring/dofile?
| Then you are already save!  Executing code with these functions will never
| reach the exit in ldo.c.
| 

What about running out of memory on an embedded system? In this case
exit is called. Or I believe a stack overflow - running out of stack space. 
These are things that can't be 'caught' in Lua but _can_ be dealt with by
the host program.