Re: upvals in Lua bytecode

[Xingzhi Pan <vengeance.storm@...>]

The discussion in this thread totally veered away from my original question :-)

Maybe you guys should spawn 2~3 new threads to continue.  lol

Xingzhi 'Harry' Pan

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Patrick Donnelly <batrick@batbytes.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:16 PM, HyperHacker <hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Say by writing something like:
>> require('strict')
>> at the top of your source? :)
>
> The strict library only catches runtime errors which often is not what
> you want. You can only catch all of the global variable oopsies by
> testing all code paths which is annoying. I've had to write a custom
> tool to look for these screw-ups in Nmap's Lua libraries because the
> problem badly breaks any code run by multiple threads (coroutines).
>
>> (strict is a built-in standard library? I
>> don't have access to a computer to check right now...)
>
> The strict library is not a standard library. It's just an "example"
> library (for lack of a better word) that isn't even installed via
> `make install`.
>
> --
> - Patrick Donnelly
>
>



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