Re: Userdata environment example (Re: GC method for objects)

[Asko Kauppi <asko.kauppi@...>]

What would be an interesting thing is to have the closure C syntax 
(that's what you mean by upvalues, right?) transparently supported via 
this new mechanism.  Such code would also show the way as to how to 
convert away from upvalue/closures to these environment/closures.

-ak

24.4.2005 kello 20:15, Mark Hamburg kirjoitti:

 Returning to the issue of function environments, is there a reason to
> preserve support for upvalues for C functions given environment 
> tables? I'm
> not necessarily advocating their removal, but it seems like the 
> environments
> mechanism may have significantly diminished their value.