Re: debug.getlocal losing information

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> >
> >Lua 5.2 does not have these empty levels
> >anymore, only a bit telling that from level X to level X+1 there has
> >been removed frames.
> Why? The old behavior seems more logical. Now we would have to worry
> about tail calls when we pass a stack level to 'error' function?

Both options have its drawbacks. The new behavior is closer to what
is actually happening in the interpreter.


> Or is there going to be something like absolute stack levels, instead
> of current relative stack levels?

That would be good if we had used negative values for relative stack
levels, as in the C API.

-- Roberto