Re: global keyword instead of local

[Reuben Thomas <Reuben.Thomas@...>]

> Incidentally, the scoping rules of both Lua and Python also mean
> that defining recursive local functions is not straightforward,
> because the variable holding the function object is not visible to
> the function!

This too is awkward in Lua, and having full lexical scoping (and removing
the rather awkward "upvalues") would be good. What's the problem with
passing non-fixed environments around with closures?

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