Re: [Monotone-devel] Commit error (Possible LUA problem)

[Thomas Keller]

Am 15.02.10 17:46, schrieb Philipp Gröschler:
>> Philipp, try to open lua from command line and enter
>>
>>> function foo(...) return unpack(arg) end
>>> = foo(1,2,3)
>>
>> Do you see
>>
>> 1       2       3
>>
>> as output then? If yes, then its not a lua problem.
> 
> No, in fact I see this:
>> Lua 5.1.4  Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
>>> function foo(...) return unpack(arg) end         
>>> = foo(1,2,3)                                     
>> stdin:1: bad argument #1 to 'unpack' (table expected, got nil)
>> stack traceback:                                              
>>         [C]: in function 'unpack'                             
>>         stdin:1: in function <stdin:1>                        
>>         (tail call): ?                                        
>>         [C]: ?      
> 
> I guess we have some clue now :-)

I talked with the guys on #lua and they told me that `arg` is deprecated
in favour of `...` and that `arg` does no longer works if Lua is
compiled without compatibility. So I'll go through our code and replace
the occurrences of `arg` accordingly.

Thanks for your patience,
Thomas.

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