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On 08/25/2014 02:56 AM, Patrick Donnelly wrote:
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Thijs Schreijer <thijs@thijsschreijer.nl> wrote:As "lua_State" not actually refers to a state, but to a thread or an execution stack, could it be renamed? To something that properly reflects what it is? I suspect that the name was introduced before coroutines were added, which meant that a state and a thread were pretty much the same thing then.+1 for lua_Thread.
I don't really get the use of the word 'thread' in the C API, they are called "coroutines" in the Lua library.
-- Thomas