Re: caching pointers to Lua strings?

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> wrote:
> You can get away with it for a short time under normal circumstances,
> i.e. when there's no GC before you use the string, but it will bite
> you in the end!

So presumably you can get away with it if you explicitly create a
reference to the string with luaL_ref?

Then of course you need to know when to release that reference.

steve d.