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> So going out of scope, pops out the variable referring to the object
> on heap, and if object has no other reference, then it is queued for
> GC. Is that the right understanding ?

Not quite. Objects are only found have no referene in a GC cycle, not
when variables go out of scope. Lua does not use reference counting.