Re: How do I add a "local" using the c api

[Mark Hamburg <mark@...>]

On Mar 31, 2009, at 6:45 AM, Tom Miles wrote:

> Thanks for the quick response, but I think you're misunderstanding  
> my intentions.  What I want to do is add a "local" variable in C,  
> for a lua script to access.

Which script? A local more or less by definition is only accessible to  
a single script so it doesn't make sense to talk about adding a local  
to be accessed by an independent script. I'm going to assume that  
there is simply a misunderstanding here between your intention and the  
question coming through to the list due to some missing key detail.

For example, if your question is really: I've got some C functions and  
they need to share a Lua-valued variable but I don't want this  
variable visible elsewhere -- i.e., it's local to the C functions --  
how do I do this? Then the answer is: A shared environment table for  
the functions. (And someone more intimately familiar with the standard  
library sources than I am at the moment could point you to an example.)

Mark