Re: VS2008 and __gc

["Wesley Smith" <wesley.hoke@...>]

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Chip Salzenberg <chip@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 10:06:39AM -0700, Wesley Smith wrote:
>> Hi list,
>> I was porting some code to Windows and was surprised that a method:
>>    static in __gc(lua_State *L)
>> was using the "__gc" keyword.
>
> If you write your code in compliance with standards, that shouldn't matter.
> Any identifier starting with double underscores is in the purview of the
> implementation, and your code must not define it in any way.

I'm sorry, but I don't understand a single word of this.  Can you
explain with less generalities?  I'm writing strict C++, which I guess
corresponds to "compliance with standards", but I don't follow the
next sentence.

wes