Re: Understanding lua_ref and lua_unref

["Raymond Jacobs" <raymondj@...>]

Roberto,

 

I remember browsing the bug list a while back, and that one must have slipped me =/
 

I realize it's not a problem with lua, but I can't imagine how many people have tried to use

DX and Lua together and eventually ruled Lua as being 'buggy' and dropped it. =/

 

 

On a side note, I don't belive the lua documentation makes mention that co-routines created in

C must be manualy removed from the stack when done. this problem also threw me for a gigantic loop,

which took days to figure out. It does mention they are 'subject to garbage collection'

but I didin't make the connection being a new Lua user. I wonder if that should be noted they need to be removed to be collected?

 

Anyhow, I'll be sure to keep a closer eye on the documentation, thanks for your help.
 

On 4/18/06, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

> this REALLY should be better documented since it would have been very easy
> for me to never find the reason for this issue.

It is in the bug page in the site, and we will soon release 5.1.1 (a
bug-fix release) that should avoid this problem.

-- Roberto