Re: lua_getinfo for C operators

[Tim Gogolin <tgogolin@...>]

On Oct 13, 2004, at 8:12 AM, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:

> > I thought that Lua did a lookup in the registry for C function names,
> > but it doesn't (maybe it should... Luiz, Roberto?)
>
> Sometimes we think the best solution here is to put the whole name
> lookup outside the core. This is an operation with no problems of
> performance, and the API offers all functionality needed to searh
> wherever we want (globals, locals, upvalues, metamethods, etc.)
>
> -- Roberto

Count this as another vote do that...

The fact that debugging name lookup does not search upvalues is a bit 
of an annoyance. Referencing function by upvalue is rather common in my 
code.

-- Tim G..