Now that I'm getting up to speed with Lua, I find the default behavior
of assigning everything to the global environment quite disconcerting.
It seems to me to be a case of "think locally, act globally". I would
much more prefer the reverse: "think globally, act locally".
I'm aware of the setfenv() function, but this require a fair amount of
hand holding, is too error prone for my taste as well as fairly
obscure all things being equal.
What I would like to setup is something along the following lines:
- By default, things are always 'local' to the file (package) they are
declared in.
- If I want to export them to the 'global' name space I have to do so
explicitly: "global MyGlobalStuff".
- Everything has to be either "local" or "global". No loose ends.
What would be a straightforward way to setup my Lua environment to
achieve the above goals?
TIA :)
Cheers
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