Re: Documenting Lua gotchas for newbies.

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> > If I understand properly, the functions are compiled to bytecode at load
> > time, but only assigned at run time.
> 
> Right, that's what I think too, but I'm wondering whether there's
> actually any visible-to-an-observer-written-in-Lua indication of that...

The fact that functions are compiled to bytecode at load time are
visible only through memory consumption and performance.

-- Roberto