Re: a new proposal for environments

[Duncan Cross <duncan.cross@...>]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Roberto Ierusalimschy
<roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> Not for files, something that's been mentioned before recently: you'd
>> have to use the io library explicitly, and you could have any number
>> of valid reasons to not include that.. But I don't see anything useful
>> coming out of letting, say, a sandboxed module load things into the
>> global environment instead of its own.
>
> I do not see why Lua should provide a function that you can build
> yourself,

You mean, like table.pack()? ;-)

-Duncan