Re: Lua 5.2 extensions (was Re: [ANN] mergelua)

[Jakub Piotr Cłapa <jpc-ml@...>]

On 19.10.11 15:16, steve donovan wrote:
> Personally, I've done enough C++ to wish for scope-based deterministic
> finalization. But it should not slow down the general case.

This could be quite easily achieved by borrowing the 'defer' mechanism 
from Go [1]. AFAIK this can be implemented quite cheaply in general but 
I do not know if it applies to the Lua (and LuaJIT) case.

[1]: http://blog.golang.org/2010/08/defer-panic-and-recover.html

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Jakub Piotr Cłapa