Re: __gc visible to lua code...

[Graham Wakefield <lists@...>]

> In most of my libraries, I have close metamethods that are exactly  
> synonymous for __gc. That is, they call the same C function. This  
> is so that I can clean up resources whenever I want, but if I ever  
> forget, the garbage collector is there to cover me. I use 'close'  
> because it is nicer to write that '__gc'.

Right; now I know that __gc is public anyway, I think I'll do the same.