Re: expand text using locals

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> Is there a way to write an expand function that make use of the local variables (not global)?
> 
> function do_stuff (p1)
>    print(expand'$(p1+1)')
> end
> 
> do_stuff(1)
> --> 2

You could use the debug library for that, though its use for ordinary
programming is not recommended. If you have control over do_stuff, then
you could created a table with the values of the locals before calling
expand and pass it to expand.