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On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> if there's no other references, Lua will GC module table. so you can
> set your own GC handler and do necessary cleanup.

You cannot set __gc for tables. But you can say use a udata as upvalue for
all functions registered in the module and then clean up when that udata
is collected.

I have also thought about what to do in this situation and I am still learning these tricks. Any examples would be very helpful. Thanks.
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Regards,
Ryan