Re: Reference to table innards and GC

[RLake@...]

> Taking the examples into account, are the above
statements correct?

No. Statements 1 and 3 are correct, but statement
2 is incorrect: what you call the "outer table" will be eventually
garbage collected because no reference to it remains.

There is actually no such thing as an "inner"
table: there are two tables, one of which includes a reference to the other.
(So the global variable inner in example two does not reference the "innards"
of anything.)

R.