Re: globals (_locals)

[Tom _ <tom7ca@...>]

--- Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br>
wrote:
> There is a small syntactical problem here. We cannot
> accept just "global",
> because the compiler would need lots of look-ahead
> to realise that
> something like
> 
>   global
>   a, b, c = 1, 2, 3
> 
> is not "global a,b,c". One solution is to add a
> specific "mark" for such
> cases ("global ;", "global -", anything like this).

Any of those would address my concerns.

One thing to consider might be to introduce "dmode" 
functions with a different keyword:

dfunction f()
	...
end

or

dfun f()
	...
end

Tom


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