Re: upgrade problem - global variables

[Martin Spernau <martin@...>]

Try
table.foreach(_G, print)
-Martin

Kenneth Lo wrote:

> I'm upgrading from 4.0 to 5.0beta.  One thing I can't really sort out 
> after reading the manual and the past mails is the globals.  There is 
> suppose to be somthing called _glob (manual section 3.2) though some 
> mails refer it as _global or __global.  Also there is a pseudo-index 
> called LUA_GLOBALSINDEX and the registry LUA_REGISTRYINDEX.  When I 
> print them from interactive lua, they all return nil.  Am I correct 
> that these values can only be assessed via C function calls?  What 
> really are pseudo-indices?  What are they designed for?
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