Re: Passing values back through function arguments

[Reuben Thomas <rrt@...>]

> Suppose I wanted to pass a value back from a C function through arguments
> that were passed in.

You can't with strings or numbers: they're always passed by value. Two
ways to get around this would be a) to pass the name of a (global)
variable as one of the arguments, and b) to change the value of a table
argument (since tables are passed by reference).

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