RE: Garbage Collector

["Marius Gheorghe" <mgheorghe@...>]

> Btw, "local t = {n = n}, mt" looks wrong.
>
> Question: should Lua issue an error if there are
>           more expressions than variable names?

It doesn't do what it probably was intended to do, however it is perfectly
OK Lua syntax. The extra values - in this case the value of the global mt
(probably nil) - will be discarded.

For the author of the original code: you probably want to rewrite that line
as follows:
local mt, t = {}, {n = n}
or better yet, separate the declaration of locals with initialization from
the ones without initialization
local mt
local t = {n = n}

Marius Gheorghe
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