Re: Docs for lua_remove, lua_replace

[Albert Krewinkel <albert+lua@...>]

Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> writes:

>> The documentation for `lua_remove` and `lua_replace` indicates that both
>> will never trigger an error. However, their (macro) definitions use
>> lua_pop, which *can* raise an error in Lua 5.4. Therefore, I believe
>> that the function indicators should be `[-1, +0, e]` instead of
>> `[-1, +0, –]`.
>
> lua_pop can raise an error only when popping a to-be-closed slot.
> According to the documentation, a to-be-closed slot should only
> be removed by lua_pop or lua_settop; that is, 'lua_remove' and
> 'lua_replace' should not be used to remove a to-be-closed slot.  So,
> if the API is used followind the documentation, 'lua_remove' and
> 'lua_replace' cannot raise errors.

Ah, thanks! I had missed that, even though it *is* right there in the
description of lua_toclose.

Sorry for the noise.

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Albert Krewinkel
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