Re: local variables and scope

[Diego Nehab <diego@...>]

Hi,

> What were the design motivations leading to all variables being global, and 
> limiting them to the block scope only when 'local' is used ?
> Why not the reverse (all variables local to block scope expect where noted 
> 'global') ?

You can read about the great "Globals-Locals by default" war anywhere 
between these two threads:

    4 Aug 2005
    http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2005-08/msg00132.html

    14 Nov 1997
    http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/1997-11/msg00018.html

Hundreds of good programmers have been killed in the conflict.
In the end, the "Globals" tribe won.  Let's not start another 
one...

Regards,
Diego.