Re: Making vars local by default

[Steve Dekorte <steve@...>]

Eric Ries wrote:
> I am curious if it would be worthwhile to implement a perl-style eval() 
> for
> executing lua code. Lua's dostring() is very close, but eval() has the 
> added
> advantage of automatically returning the last statement executed. So for
> instance eval( "10" ) is equivalent to dostring( "return 10" )

so why not add just this line to your code?:

function eval(s) return dostring("return "..s) end

Steve