Re: obfuscating / protecting LUA code

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

David Given wrote:
> If you use locals everywhere you can, rather than global variables (a good
> idea anyway because it'll speed things up), then the compiler doesn't keep
> track of the names therefore they won't get emitted. (Except in the debugging
> code, with you remove with the luac -s option.)

That's right regarding local variables' names, but what about table 
fields' names? luac keeps them intact, even with the -s option.

> *Don't* obfuscate your source code unless you truly desire a long stay at
> Arkham Asylum!

I meant automatic obfuscating of variables' names, an additional 
"compilation" step, part of the make process. This shouldn't hurt the 
original source code.

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Shmuel