Re: numbering in luac -l -l

[Pierre Chapuis <catwell@...>]

On 2012-03-05 21:02, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> > I am noticed that, in the debug output of luac,
> > constants numbering starts at 1 whereas locals
> > and upvalues numbering starts at 0.
>
> No string reason except that some instructions accept either a 
> register
> or a constant and in the latter case the constant number is shown as
> negative in the instruction listing. If constants started at 0 then 
> we'd
> get -0 in the listing and it'd look weird. Perhaps not.
>
> I agree it's not very consistent but there it is. And it's been like 
> that for
> a long time...

Thank you. It's not a problem for me, I was just
wondering if there was a more fundamental reason.