Re: Globals (more ruminations)

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> I'm trying to think when I would use this.  Under my normal coding
> style, I have no real problem with unintentional global sets
> associated with SETGLOBAL opcodes because I ban SETGLOBAL (plus other
> things) in my lint checks.  Perhaps the only small improvement to this
> would be some standardized way (e.g. pragma or comment) to assert in
> source code that "SETGLOBAL opcodes are banned" so that the Lua
> compiler can bark on it without the complication of running an
> external tool (which newbie users wouldn't do).

Exactly. (Moreover, 5.2 will not have SETGLOBAL opcodes anymore ;)

-- Roberto