Re: How does one find a loop in a gettable chain?

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 18.02.2016 um 20:33 schröbte Dirk Laurie:
> I'm getting the following error:
>
>     gettable chain too long; possible loop
>
> It's difficult to locate the error by my usual technique
> of sprinkling print statements around. This may be
> a case where the debug library is needed.
>
> The traceback is of little use. It contains only the
> outermost call, which is almost the only statement
> in the main chunk.

I've used my microscope[1] module for detecting cycles in __index 
metamethods before.


Philipp

  [1]: https://luarocks.org/modules/siffiejoe/microscope