Re: Getting local variable debug info from within a nested function.

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 8-Jun-07, at 8:28 PM, Matthew Armstrong wrote:

> So I've gone and written myself some debugging utility functions, but 
> am running into some trouble with the following:
>
> function outer(param)
>     return
>         function()
>             -- (do something with param)
>             debug.debug()
>         end
> end
>
> outer(42)()
>
> So when I break at debug.debug, a search up the stack doesn't give me 
> any info about param.  Any way to get this?

param is an upvalue; it's not on the stack at that point.

(Plug:) You might want to take a look at the lua debugger
(still alpha, but quite usable) at
http://primero.ricilake.net:8008/ldb/index.html