Re: Globals (more ruminations)

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> One possible downside of this is that this very simple Lua program:
> 
> a = "Hello World"
> print(a)
> 
> becomes: 
> 
> global a = "Hello World"
> print(a)

There should be some toggle to control this. A simple one is the
"global" declaration itself. When a chunk uses a global declaration
it switches on the control.

(You may start you chunk with "global NO, THANKS" ;)

-- Roberto