Re: Questions on Yield in C

["Feng,Dong" <middle.fengdong@...>]

Thank you. I did not realize that is equal to a tail call. Connecting the two concepts does help understand.

I did not find lua_tailcall in the source of 5.2.1. I assume it is a would-have-be one in terms of mental experiment, is it?

在 2012-11-22，下午10:55，Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> 写道：

> 
> For this particular rule (no continuation), yes, it makes complete
> sense. It would correspond exactly to a tail call in C: lua_tailcall.
> A tail call is exactly a call with no continuation in the calling
> function.
> 
> -- Roberto
>