Re: Is there a hook for the finalizer/garbage collection of non-user types?

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> a = { ....whatever ... }
> b = { __gc = function ...finalizer stuff... end }
> setmetatable(a,b)
> 
> Then when "a" is collected it will run the __gc function in the metatable.
> That doesn't seem to work currently.   Or how to I get this type of
> functionality?  I have a table that has some external state information that
> needs to be cleaned up when the table is destroyed.  Is my only choice to
> manually call some sort of cleanup function before killing the table?

Set that "external state information" as a userdata value inside "a" and
set a __gc method for that userdata.

Or try newproxy (undocumented). See this for instance:
	http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2005-09/msg00474.html

--lhf