Re: Documenting Lua gotchas for newbies.

[GrayFace <sergroj@...>]

On 02.12.2010 2:28, Pierre-Yves Gérardy wrote:
> Are there other potential traps? On what did you stumble while 
> learning the language?
1) 'a and b or c'. First, the meaning of the construction. Second, the 
foot-shooter when 'b' may be 'false' or 'nil'.
2) The stack doesn't grow automatically when used from C. There's a 
number of stack slots reserved for last called C function. For more 
slots luaL_checkstack/lua_checkstack should be called.

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Sergey Rozhenko                 mailto:sergroj@mail.ru