Re: tables and the gc

[Ben Sunshine-Hill <bsunshin@...>]

>From what I've seen, upvalues are references to objects, not to scopes. So 
since the only upvalue to z() is a, there's nothing preventing b from being 
gc'ed.

Ben

On Friday 25 April 2003 10:43 pm, Peter Hill wrote:
> The variable 'b' is no longer accessible so its contents should, ideally,
> be garbage collected. Is it? Or is the local frame containing 'a' & 'b'
> held onto because 'a' is still referenced?
>
> *cheers*
> Peter Hill

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