Re: Why I leave Lua (Was: Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work3) now available)

[Coroutines <coroutines@...>]

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 7:19 PM, Hao Wu <wuhao.wise@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am not sure about any particular case to intend overflowing the call
> stack, but here is to threshold the recursive looking up to 100 or something
> - note that __index can be a function that does anything, a.k.a. unavoidable
> infinite loop.

A stack overflow is something I might want to catch within pcall(), is
what I am saying.  Someone a day ago in #lua told me that there is a
limit on the recursion depth of C function calls, or something like
it.  I wasn't happy about that because I was trying to port something
I saw in javascript so I could find the maximum recursion depth before
stack overflow.  I wouldn't do it with __index, but infinite loops are
sometimes desired is all I am saying.  I wouldn't limit something
because I think others might not want that ~