Re: 5.2 feature list?

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Roberto Ierusalimschy a écrit :
> > Biggest feature request on my radar is to sort out the automatic global 
> > variables issue which seems to me to be the only serious design flaw in 
> > Lua

Well, I believe this has been discussed over and over in this list, 
isn't it?

> > Would Roberto maybe admit that if he was redesigning Lua from scratch 
> > today variables would be local by default and global by declaration? If 
> > not, why not?
>
> No. It is simply wrong.

What is wrong? What John wrote? The old design choice?
I remember you tried to introduce a global keyword, but for some reason 
I forgot, it was removed in the final release.

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