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

["Pierre Chapuis" <lua@...>]

x[1] is {} which, evaluated as a boolean, is true in Lua. The only false objects are `false` and `nil`, unlike other languages such as Python.

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Pierre Chapuis

On Sun, Apr 30, 2023, at 12:56, Heqing HUANG wrote:

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