Re: kill coroutine

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 20-Aug-05, at 7:19 PM, David Given wrote:

> I am curious to know what happens if a coroutine nils out its own last
> reference, though. Does the program counter carry an implicit 
> reference to
> the code its executing? What happens when the coroutine yields?

The currently running thread (and therefore its stack) are always part 
of the gc root. So is the "main thread" (and its stack).

If there is no reference left to a coroutine and the coroutine yields, 
then it will get garbage collected at some point.