Re: Global access control

[David Jeske <jeske@...>]

I like solution, and it's my opinion that it would be a worthwhile
addition to standard Lua. 

On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 04:06:56PM -0200, rw20@cornell.edu wrote:
> Is there any news as to what (if any) strategy might be adopted 
> officailly by Lua to control access to globals?  Having the option of 
> requiring global access declarations would make Lua much more robust.
> 
> I've already written something like 
> 
> $noglobals
> z=10
> q=45
> g=54
> 
> function example(x)
> local w,y
> global z,q
>    w=x*x
>    print(w+x+q)
>    print(g)  -- error
> end
> 
> In standard mode lua just ignores the global list, so this code works in 
> either mode ($globals or $noglobals).
> 
> Russ
> 

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