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- Subject: RE: Flush the term upvalue from 5.1 manual
- From: "Henderson, Michael D" <michael.d.henderson@...>
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:08:29 -0700
I'm glad that this subject came up. I had never really understood
upvalue until reading this thread. Thanks!
-----Original Message-----
From: Boyko Bantchev
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 3:14 AM
The term `non-local variable' is a bit longer but often used in other
languages for what an upvalue is in Lua: a variable which is neither
local to a function being considered, nor global, i.e. one that is local
in an outer context. Moreover, this use of `non-local' is consistent
with `non-local exits' in other languages (and in a proposal of Rici
Lake some time ago in this list).
