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by Eversome
Mon Jul 22, 2013 5:36 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Removing Threads
Replies: 8
Views: 4575

Re: Removing Threads

Hmm. If I use return at the bottom of a thread, does it empty the thread's message pool?
by Eversome
Mon Jul 22, 2013 4:13 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Removing Threads
Replies: 8
Views: 4575

Re: Removing Threads

It seems that if I call :wait() on the finished thread and then :start() directly after, it restarts the thread rather than cleaning it up. Is this intended behavior?
by Eversome
Mon Jul 22, 2013 3:12 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Removing Threads
Replies: 8
Views: 4575

Re: Removing Threads

bartbes wrote:You need to wait on it for it to get cleaned up.
Alright, thanks for clearing that up. It wasn't exactly clear in the wiki ^^
by Eversome
Mon Jul 22, 2013 3:01 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Removing Threads
Replies: 8
Views: 4575

Removing Threads

Hey, I was just wondering if there was some way to remove a thread after it finishes. I want to do this because: (a.) Two threads can't have the same name. Unusable threads are a waste of space. (b.) I can't use thread:start() to restart the thread until 0.9.0 ): (c.) I hate the finished thread's g...
by Eversome
Sat Jul 20, 2013 10:09 am
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: LuaSocket Help
Replies: 0
Views: 1384

LuaSocket Help

This isn't exactly related to LOVE, but it pertains to the LuaSocket API packaged with it. Hello. I am trying to convert a python code to Lua code, but the only problem I have is translating Python's Requests API to Lua's LuaSocket API. The Requests API seems to return a nice little table when using...