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?

I just remembered another (perhaps odd) use of nested scoping: to wrap a
script into a function call while keeping a function argument (or local)
protected from the script:

script = [[
  function(secret, a)
  -- do something with secret
  do
    local secret = nil
]] .. script .. [[
  end
  return secret
end
]]