Re: Making vars local by default

[Steve Dekorte <steve@...>]

On Tuesday, May 22, 2001, at 02:29 PM, Eric Ries wrote:

> Well, that is what I do now as a kind of kludge. But that is not exactly
> right, unless lua can handle constructs like:
>
> return if foo then
> return a
> else
> return b
> end
>
> But surely, if this is a feature that is helpful, we can do better...

In that case, would this do the job?

function eval(s)
  return dostring("local f = function () "..s.." end; return f()")
end

Steve