Re: Getting the value of Lua's io.output() from the C API

[Peter Aronoff <telemachus@...>]

On Tue Dec 11 2012 @  5:07, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> In 5.2 the current output file is stored in the registry, so it is
> easy to access it from outside the library. (Currently the key is not
> exported in a .h file, but it is easy to copy it: "_IO_output".)

Thank you for this. I'll definitely look.

I would love still to hear from any and all about the larger issue (and for
5.1 I suppose): namely, would it be unusual or bad to use call a Lua
function from a C module that was in turn about to return a result to Lua?

Thanks, Peter
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