Re: Confirmation for a potential case that causes an infinite loop

[Heqing HUANG <hhuangaz@...>]

However, since x[1] is empty, should it be false and directly terminate the loop?

On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 6:48 PM Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

The main loop below never changes the value of x[1] and never creates
garbage (numbers are not objects).

while x[1] do   -- repeat until GC
  local a = A -- create garbage
  A = A+1
end