Re: 5.2 feature list?

[John Hind <john.hind@...>]

Let me bore everyone with another crack at this automatic variable thing:

Suppose the local keyword was generalised to a local shortcut generator so:

local foo, bar, lua : a_table_ref

Means that within the current lexical scope, "foo" means 
"a_table_ref[foo]", etc.

local foo, bar, lua

Is syntactic sugar for "local foo : getenv()" (Simulating the current 
behaviour).

local foo, bar, lua : _G

Gives the desired global declaration without having to introduce 
"global" as a keyword. There'd still need to be an OPTION EXPLICIT 
switch to require (or not for compatibility) global declarations.

This gives the additional innovation of allowing local shortcuts to ANY 
table, for example:

local function1, function2 : 
MyVerboseCodeLibrary.AnotherLevelofGratutiousAbstraction.HaveIMadeMyPointYet

Just another crazy idea for the critics to shoot full of holes ....