Antwort: global keyword instead of local

[Martin_Doering@...]

>How hard would it be to modify Lua source code
>to add "global" keyword for explicit declaration 
>of global variables and make all variables local
>by default?

This is one thing I never understood. Why is it implemented that way - in 
all other programming languages (that I know) variables in 
subroutines/functions are automatically local. Is there a reason, why it 
is implemented the other way round? 

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