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- Subject: Re: Environment variables
- From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>
- Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 22:08:11 -0200
>I thought of using a tagmethod for setglobal, but
>that did not seem to be allowed. Also, the globals
>table is of not much help now (I guess).
The "setglobal" tagmethod for nil should work fine for Lua 4.0.
For Lua 5.0, use the "__newindex" metamethod.
>Another question: why is there no setenv() in the
>std. lib???
Because it's not ANSI C. The man page in my Linyx box says that setenv is
only in BSD 4.3, not even in POSIX, which seems to have putenv.
--lhf
