Re: a new proposal for environments

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick@...>]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Roberto Ierusalimschy
<roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> * Environments for C functions should go too. Actually, they were
> introduced only to match environments in Lua functions. The old
> technique of setting a table as a common upvalue for all functions
> of a library (as done in Lua 5.0) is quite satisfying. (So, the
> only "environments" left are for userdata, which probably should
> get a more proper name.)

Can we still keep the convenience of C environments even if it is now
an upvalue. Some support for an equivalent system would be nice even
if the implementation is different.

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- Patrick Donnelly