Re: _G, _ENV

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick@...>]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Jorge <xxopxe@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to rise a question that seems to be being avoided in the
> current threads discussing such things, and it's absolutely critical.
>
> _G and _ENV are _UGLY.
>
> Why all caps? Why the underscore thing? I know it make them look C-ish,
> and that's totally hardcore, but all caps and the underscore thing isn't
> used anywhere else in Lua (or is it?).

I like the way _ENV looks just fine. (Not to start a vote thread, just
noting that some of us like it just fine.)

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- Patrick Donnelly