Re: getting upvalues in current thread's environment?

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 11-Jan-07, at 6:14 PM, Matthew Armstrong wrote:

> Is it possible to get an environment with local variables present too?
>
> I'm trying:
>
> function flarp()
>     local myLocal = "hello"   
>     local myEnv = getfenv()
>     print(myEnv.myLocal) -- (prints nil)
> end
> flarp()
>
>
> ... but myEnv.myLocal is still nil.  Anyone know a way of doing this?  
> Or is it impossible?

You can only do it with the debug library, which is not recommended for 
production code (as well as being quite slow, and somewhat unreliable 
since it won't work if the compiled code has been stripped.)