Re: Redefining locals

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 11-Nov-04, at 11:54 AM, Mark Hamburg wrote:

>  Is it useful to be able
> to capture a variable and then create a new variable with the same 
> name in
> what appears to be the same scope?

My most common use of the idiom is the following:

  local _, _, capture = string.find(str, pattern)

If you couldn't use nested local's, this would be illegal (and most of 
my code would break).

Special casing _ strikes me as not a good idea, but perhaps some would 
like that.

R.