Re: "or" shortcut does not work - but why?

[Nick Gammon <nick@...>]

On 16/06/2007, at 9:20 PM, Andreas Rozek wrote:

>  local Result = false;  -- you could also use "nil" here
>     Result = Result or "anything else";
>   io.stdout:write("Result = '"..tostring(Result).."'");

What if you write:

 local Result = false;  -- you could also use "nil" here
  io.stdout:write("Result = '"..tostring(Result).."'");

The "or" seems to work from your post, so maybe it is not making the  
local variable correctly.

- Nick