Re: Light userdata

[Tuomo Valkonen <tuomov@...>]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:51:13PM +0900, Dylan Cuthbert wrote:
> You hit the nail on the head really - pointers are nasty so the light user
> data system seems like a bit of a C old-school hack to me.

Well, I use light userdatas as keys to a weak table in the registry (Lua 
code has no access to it) that is used as a cache for the proxy objects
or "watches" how I like to call them. (These are weak references, but
also have a destroy handler that gets called before the object gets
deinitialised so that code that depends on the object existing can also
deinitialise or find another object to use.)

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Tuomo