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upvalues

upvalues is the plural of upvalue.

upvalues is the third-person singular simple present indicative of upvalue.

Meaning of upvalue

Noun

upvalue (plural upvalues)

  1. A free variable that has been bound (closed over) with a closure.
    • The so-called shared upvalues are copied for each function during setup. Afterward, the functions access their own copies of the upvalues. In the Lua reference manual, these are called shared upvalues because they are only pushed onto the stack once and used for all functions to be registered...2023, Wenhuan Li, Integrate Lua with C++ […] , Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 156

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Questions about upvalues

What is upvalues the plural of?
Upvalues is the plural of upvalue.

Words near upvalues in the dictionary

  1. upvalley
  2. upvaluation
  3. upvaluations
  4. upvalue
  5. upvalued
  6. upvalues
  7. upvaluing
  8. uPVC
  9. uPVCs
  10. upvote
  11. upvoted

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