Re: Error Text Suggestion for coroutine.status in 5.3

[Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>]

On Friday, August 29, 2014, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2014-08-29 16:05 GMT+02:00 Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@trms.com>:
> >
> > I'm dumb. So, I don't know how I flubbed this so badly, but:
> >
> > The error returned by create, imHo, should report that it expected a
> > "function", not a "coroutine". If that distinction is useful to make, then
> > add a note like "this function is the coroutine that runs within the thread"
> > or something.
> >
> > But to me, the effort to be more... contextually correct?... makes this
> > error more confusing. "coroutine.create" needs a "function" and there is no
> > such value type "coroutine."
> >
> > Sorry for the flub.
>
> You've just flubbed a little more. Your initial post dealt with the error
> message from "status". "create" expects a function, true, but says so:
>
> > th=coroutine.create(42)
> stdin:1: bad argument #1 to 'create' (function expected, got number)
>
> Returning to the fact that "status" says it expects a coroutine. I agree that
> the error message should say that it expects a thread, because it only tests
> whether it gets a thread, and that's enough. It also works if you pass the
> main thread, not only a thread created by coroutine.create.

Sometimes, I really frustrate me...

Thanks for your grace. I had wondered why nobody jumped on my original "error". :)