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David Given wrote:
Of course, right now the Lua interpreter *doesn't* do this, IIRC --- each variable gets its own dedicated stack slot --- so we can rely on them being initialised to nil. But I'm willing to bet that LuaJIT does.
Any compiler doing smart register allocation will realise that they cannot overlay a and b in those circumstances. Won't even need to "special-case" it.
The only problem is there is no clear and obvious way the code should function, so my stance has always been throw a meaningful error. It's not a hard one to catch at all, requiring only a minor modification to the parser..
- Alex