Re: error() in 5.1

[Reuben Thomas <rrt@...>]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, PA wrote:

> On Mar 29, 2006, at 17:04, Reuben Thomas wrote:
>
> > By experimentation, I just found that error() produces no output (just what 
> > I wanted), but the manual doesn't document this case. Is this an oversight, 
> > or is the behaviour non-standard? (I'm using John Belmonte's Debian 
> > package.)
>
> I would guess "non-standard", at least in the lua interpreter.
>
> error( "Duh!" )
>
> lua: TestTable.lua:322: Duh!
> stack traceback:
>        [C]: in function 'error'
>        TestTable.lua:322: in main chunk
>        [C]: ?

You misunderstand: I'm talking about error called with no arguments. 
error with arguments works as advertised in the manual.

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