Re: Lua 5.4.0-alpha-rc1 behavior with closing methods errors

[Sergey Kovalev <kovserg33@...>]

__unreference should call immediately when reference count to zero,
unliket __gc it is called latter then there is no way to stand more or
when explicitly call collectgarbage()

вт, 25 июн. 2019 г. в 08:24, Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com>:
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> On Mon, 24 Jun 2019, 19:49 Sergey Kovalev, <kovserg33@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I wonder why method is named __toclose but not __noreference ?
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> Because it doesn't mean there is no reference, that's what __gc is for already.
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> The method is called when a specific variable referencing the value goes out of scope. There may be other variables still happily referencing the value.
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> Regards,
> Matthew