Re: Please comment on these Lua to C library bindings that I wrote

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@...>]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 01:13:05PM +0000, Jerome Vuarand wrote:
> Well the easy solution is to use the tostring function (not
> lua_tostring). It accepts any Lua value, and gives you a string. Most
> thrown errors are already strings anyway, and if you throw custom
> objects you can give them a __tostring metamethod that tostring will
> invoke.

I'll try this.

> And as for the "single change", it has a big impact. Whether you pass
> a valid string or NULL, luaL_register will create a new table on the
> stack or not.

I think what I don't understand is do I need to add this string
parameter?  The code seems to work fine at the moment (using NULL), so
I'm inclined to just leave it alone.

Rich.

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