RE: hi, does lua's gc collect the coroutines at 'suspended' status?

["Thijs Schreijer" <thijs@...>]

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> Sent: dinsdag 13 november 2012 6:51
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> Subject: hi, does lua's gc collect the coroutines at 'suspended' status?
> 
> hi,
> 
> if I remove the reference of corounte A, and A is at  'suspended' status?
> Does lua's gc collect this coroutine? and if at 'running', 'dead' ?
> 
> thanks.
> 
> 
> --
> Nothing is impossible.

Yes it will be collected. Probably best; if you have no reference left to
the thread, you cannot resume it.

It will even collect the running thread if not anchored. See this thread for
some info;
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/94150/focus=94172