Re: [Proposal] 'd' and 'D' debug.getinfo switches

[Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@...>]

On 1 November 2016 at 15:14, Soni L. <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would be nice if debug.getinfo(1, 'd') and debug.getinfo(1, 'D')
> respectively returned a number with the call stack position (from the bottom
> of the stack i.e. the last stack element would have position 1) and an
> userdatum which can be used with debug.getinfo (and other debug.* functions)
> to retrieve the stack data in O(1) rather than O(n) time (as long as the
> stack position remains valid).
>

This would also be useful for Lua debuggers. I suggested an approach
for providing this information in the following post:

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2016-10/msg00118.html

Regards