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- Subject: Re: Backport of Lua 5.2 "in" scoping (was Re: Lua registry, environment, and threads.)
- From: Mark Hamburg <mark@...>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 08:58:28 -0800
So, on the "what's it good for" front, we can add "making closures with custom environments". I'm not sure how those pay off relative to using upvalues though to share data.
My assumption is that this change buys us something significant, but I'm not sure what that something is yet.
Mark
- References:
- Re: Lua registry, environment, and threads., Christian Tellefsen
- Re: Lua registry, environment, and threads., Roberto Ierusalimschy
- Re: Lua registry, environment, and threads., Mark Hamburg
- Re: Lua registry, environment, and threads., Patrick Donnelly
- Re: Lua registry, environment, and threads., Roberto Ierusalimschy
- Re: Lua registry, environment, and threads., Enrico Colombini
- Re: Lua registry, environment, and threads., Roberto Ierusalimschy
- Backport of Lua 5.2 "in" scoping (was Re: Lua registry, environment, and threads.), Mike Pall
- Re: Backport of Lua 5.2 "in" scoping (was Re: Lua registry, environment, and threads.), Matthew Wild
- Re: Backport of Lua 5.2 "in" scoping (was Re: Lua registry, environment, and threads.), Mike Pall
- Re: Backport of Lua 5.2 "in" scoping (was Re: Lua registry, environment, and threads.), Roberto Ierusalimschy
