Trying to recover from an error in a coroutine

[David Morris-Oliveros <david@...>]

I sent this email last month, and never got a reply, and since it's 
something that i don't know how to address, i would like some advice, 
thanks in advance.

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I have a few coroutines running within a stateful world.

I want to be able to guard against dodgy scripts that aren't written
properly, so I setup a little protocol that all my coroutined scripts
have to follow:

-- begin
function SETUP() ... end
function RUN() ... end
function CLEANUP() ... end
-- end

SETUP & CLEANUP are optional - they'll be called if present. RUN is
compulsory, if not present, an assert will fire, and we'll all run off
to fix that script. The script is executed with lua_resume to populate
_G with these functions, then they are retrieved and called, SETUP &
CLEANUP with lua_pcall and RUN with lua_resume (because I want o
manually timeslice them).

I want my script system to be able to recover from an error within
RUN(). But I have found that if i call error() or lua_error within
RUN(), lua_resume with the correct code (LUA_ERRERR), but I can't really
do anything else with that lua_State, if I try to lua_pushnumber() it
will assert (I have lua asserts turned on).

The reason I want to do this is because I want scripts to be
self-cleaning. They will setup any resources in SETUP, and everything
will be cleaned up in CLEANUP independent of whatever happens in between.

Using LUA_VERSION "Lua 5.1 (alpha)".

Cheers

--
// David Morris-Oliveros
// Camera & Lua Coder
// Team Bondi


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Level 2, 608 Harris Street
Ultimo, NSW 2007
Australia
Tel: +61 (0)2 8218 1500
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Web: http://www.teambondi.com
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