Re: on-error debug hook (was: block-scope finalization)

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 16.11.2015 um 19:13 schröbte Roberto Ierusalimschy:
> > [...] It used to be the
> > case that debug.traceback was triggered by Lua before the error was
> > thrown, which allowed for some access to Lua state, but it's no longer
> > the case with Lua 5.2+.
>
> I don't think that changed in Lua 5.2.

The default Lua interpreter in Lua 5.1 calls `debug.traceback` in the 
message handler, while Lua 5.2/3 use `luaL_traceback` instead. 
`debug.traceback` is easier to monkey-patch ...

> -- Roberto

Philipp