Re: order of destruction of variable by the garbage collector

[didier@...]

thanks for your help,

but frankly I've not really understood how the weak tables are working

I guess the code I wrote is working for small amounts of data but
I'm not sure of what would happened if several gc occured during the
processing.

> See section 2.9.1 of the manual.  __gc metamethods are
> collected in reverse order of creation, for data that is collected
> in the same gc cycle.  If you additionally want to ensure that one
> userdata will always live at least as long as another, try using
> a weak-keyed/valued table (see section 2.9.2).
>
> --Adam
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