Re: I'm totally baffled.

[Ben Sunshine-Hill <sneftel@...>]

> What is this construction??
> 
>        local t,foo={},1

It is almost equivalent (some scoping differences) to:

local t = {}
local foo = 1

The "local" statement with assignment follows the same rules as
regular assignment, namely that you assign a list of values to a list
of variables. See the ref-manual, sections 2.4.3 and 2.4.7.

Ben