Re: Making vars local by default (completely off topic)

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

Eric Ries wrote:

> 2) a, b, foo are globals - or there are no variables in the segment. This is
> most useful in config file scenarios. Here is why. Let's take this as a
> config file:
>
> {
>  "key1" = 25,
>  "key2" = function (a,b) ... end
> ...
> }
Right, I'm doing something similar to build "components". I can get 
around it with
an explicit return:

 return {
  "key1" = 25,
  "key2" = function (a,b) ... end
 }

...but that return is a sticking point with the script coders, as it's 
easy to
forget and doesn't make sense in a config file.

Jason
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