Re: Do you think Lua is lexically scoped?

[ramsdell@... (John D. Ramsdell)]

rrt@sc3d.org writes:

> Fortunately, the Lua team seem to have got the message we want them
> to get: allow function closures with assignable free variables,
> accessible with the same syntax as local and global variables.

Actually, Roberto gave us hints he understood the situation a while
ago.  What we learned recently is that a concerted effort is being
made to rectify the situation.  I truly believe that Lua without
upvalues, and with scoping rules that give nested functions access to
variables in their enclosing functions, would be a great improvement.
Make no mistake though, I too would also like to see a version of Lua
in which all variables are mutable.

John