Re: A Question of Style

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

On 07/12/2011 7.49, Sean Conner wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great Brian Maher once stated:
> > On the issue of calling Lua functions from C, you might want to avoid
> > doing that since it prevents the default Lua from working properly
> > with coroutines.
>
>    How so?  I wrote a framework (that I need to put up somewhere) that works
> fine with coroutines.  In fact, it launches a new Lua coroutine everytime a
> new TCP connection is made, with each Lua "thread" handling a connection and
> it's driven completely from C.

I guess there must be some precondition on Sean's statement; I too wrote 
a framework where C(++) game events launched Lua coroutines, which could 
call C(++) back, which in turn could ask them to suspend until a given 
C(++) event or condition, and I encountered no problems.

--
  Enrico