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

["Alex Davies" <alex.mania@...>]

I don't think think he meant to change the lexical bindings, just when they 
are initialized to nil. Eg, so that a continue would -always- cause a nil 
value runtime error, and not access some undefined value.

- Alex

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo" <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
To: "Lua list" <lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 2:56 AM
Subject: Re: upcoming changes in Lua 5.2 [was Re: Location of a package]


> > if locals are pushed on the stack the moment they are declared
>
> Wouldn't that break idioms such as
> local math = math