Re: Is breaking out of io.lines(file) safe?

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick@...>]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> In the same vain, in C I always free()
> whatever I malloc(), even though I know the memory will be given back on
> program termination.

This isn't really the best (or fair) analogy. Your memory is never
eventually garbage collected *during* program execution. In contrast,
the files Lua opens will eventually be garbage collected (and thus
closed).

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- Patrick Donnelly