Re: Serializing Closures in Lua

[John Belmonte <jvb@...>]

Brian Chin wrote:
> I'm making a game system, in which I require to save the internal state 
> of the Lua virtual machine. For stuff like C++, this is normally fairly 
> easy, since it's just data. However, in Lua, closures are a pain to 
> serialize. Has anyone ever had to do something similar, and if so can 
> you give me any hints as to this problem?

I'm not sure if it applies exactly to your problem, but I made a small 
patch to Lua 4.0 that allows you to retrieve C function closure values. 
 With a small change it can access Lua function closures also.  See 
http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaPowerPatches.

-John

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