Re: Size of a non numerical indexed table

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 1-Sep-05, at 12:01 PM, David Given wrote:

> function process(item1, item2, ...)
> 	dosomethingwith(item1, item2)
> 	return process(...)
> end

> will I end up with the parameter list duplicated
> lots of times on the stack?

In this case, no, because it's a tailcall. (However, the parameter list 
will be copied twice in the course of setting up the tailcall, I 
believe.)

If it were not a tailcall, you would end up with the duplication on the 
stack.