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In article <a95667470807170225q3dab6288w30dc31500acbadf@mail.gmail.com>,
   Ruan Kendall <shearwater+lua@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm currently working on a similar trick in my project, though I don't
> copy the whole of _G for efficiency reasons, if nothing else. Instead,
> I create a clean environment, and give it a metatable that makes it
> pull values from the global environment if they're not present in the
> sandbox.

Thanks, I will keep your answer in mind, at the moment I do not fully
understand because I don't know much about the metatable concept and need
to read about it first. 

Michael

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