Re: One more item to the collection of Lua hate-speech

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> On 8/07/2010, at 6:00 AM, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> 
> > One option would be to ban assignment to globals at all inside
> > functions. Another option would be to only allow assignments to
> > global variable previously seen in that chunk.
> 
> Could this be achieved this with a variant of strict.lua?

Sure, but only to a point. strict.lua is a dynamic check, not a static
one.  It still needs a minimum of tests to find errors. It does not
provide an easy way to circumvent the restriction. And it is optional.

-- Roberto