Re: Odd loadstring behaviour.

["Aaron Brown" <arundelo@...>]

Polarina wrote:

> The above code snippet errors with Lua falsely claiming
> that an attempt was made to call a nil value.

Lua's claim is true, because loadstring returns nil and an
error string when there's a syntax or compilation error.
Try this:

a = function (a)
       return a(a)
end

assert(loadstring(
       "print(" .. ("a("):rep(10^6) .. "a" .. (")"):rep(10^6) .. ")"
))()

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