Re: Lua 4.0 (alpha) now available

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> Every undeclared variable is a global.                                        > If you want locals you have to define them.

This is true, but Lua already had different ways to declare a local variable:

  function a(x) local y ... end

both `x' and `y' are locals. Now there is one more way: "for i..."  All
locals are explicitly declared, but not always with the "local" keyword.

-- Roberto