Re: a new proposal for environments

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

Drake Wilson <drake@begriffli.ch> writes:
> This is a huge simplification: it means that the special "environment"
> goes away entirely, and its properties are folded into the general
> idea of locals (things defined here) and upvalues (things from above).
>
> I approve heartily.

Yeah, I agree; somehow the _ENV proposal feels more "Lua-y".

As long as there's some way to control the initial value of _ENV when
loading ("loadin" or whatever), it sounds quite workable to me.

-Miles

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