Re: local variables and scope

[Jamie Webb <j@...>]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 10:06:27AM -0300, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > So whenever I really want to have the ability to create a global var, 
> > which is obviously not very often I use global.this="that"
> 
> This is a nice solution. Its main problem is that programs written
> that way will not run without this module. That is, "sctrict" programs
> are not a subset of regular programs.

But assuming there's no funky setfenv stuff going on, one could stick
'local global = global or _G' at the top of each chunk and have it
work either way.

-- Jamie Webb