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On Sun, 2020-05-17 at 20:54 +0100, Andrew Gierth wrote:
> That's not really the question. The question is whether it is
> possible
> to make a loop _in pure lua code_ that does not ever call a hook
> function. (What happens to an error that that function might generate
> is
> a separate question.)
> 
> If that's true, it would be a serious problem, no?
> 

I think that it is not such a big problem considering that you can
easily make some of standard library sting functions that work on
patterns suspend execution for minutes if not for hours. But having
loop interrupt nicely and with traceback sure would be better.
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v <v19930312@gmail.com>
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