Re: lua_replace finding

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick@...>]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Shmuel Zeigerman<shmuz@013net.net> wrote:
> When Lua stack has one element, doing lua_replace(L,1) removes that element.
> (I'd expect the stack to be left unchanged.)
>
> int test(lua_State*L) {
>  lua_settop(L, 0);
>  lua_pushnumber(L, 0);
>  lua_replace(L, 1);
>  printf("%d\n", lua_gettop(L)); // 0 is printed
>  return 0;
> }

The manual is pretty explicit about the top element being removed from
the stack. I don't see why this should be different for this odd use
case.

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