Making vars local by default

["J. Perkins" <jason@...>]

It's starting to become apparent to me that life would be easier if new 
variables were
local by default, instead of global. I'm about to go online and look for 
a patch to do
this -- I know other people have had this issue already --  but if 
anyone wants to
bounce me a link that would be great.

What I really wanted to say is that it would be great if Lua has a 
special configuration
header, where a bunch of #ifdefs could enable/disable common 
modifications. Such as
the local/global default behavior swap, and the double/integer swap, 
etc. Something
like:

#define LUA_USE_DOUBLE_NUMBERS  1
#define LUA_DEFAULT_GLOBAL_VARS 1
...

I did something like this for a previous toolkit of mine, and it was 
very handy, but of
course it tends to clutter up the code as people request more and more 
options. Well,
FWIW, just a thought.

Jason
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