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+1 for leaving it lua_State

On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 3:02 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?
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> 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.
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> Thijs
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