Re: upcoming changes in Lua 5.2 [was Re: Location of a package]

[David Given <dg@...>]

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Javier Guerra wrote:
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> ok, so what should be the outcome of that error?
> 
> - skip declaration/initialization?
> - skip loop test?
> - crash and burn?

Actually, my gut feeling is that the 'local' should actually happen
retroactively from the beginning of the chunk --- so jumping over the
'local' statement simply gives you an uninitialised variable, i.e. nil.
I'm not sure that the implementation would allow this, of course.

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