Re: a new proposal for environments

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

Jim Whitehead II wrote:
> Of global functions, yes I suspect, which is the intent of setting
> _ENV to nil.  If the user wants to create local functions, they are
> certainly still able to do that.

Though, thinking about it, to prevent the definition of globals it would 
probably be better to set a metatable for __newindex on _ENV, rather 
than jut set _ENV = nil. Otherwise library functions would be inaccessible.

  Enrico