Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (work4) now available

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Petri Häkkinen <petrih3@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7.8.2010, at 6.10, Mark Hamburg <mark@grubmah.com> wrote:
>> This hardly seems particularly bizarre and it doesn't rely on tricks with
>> environment to change global assignments into exported values.
>>
> Indeed. Honestly this should become the recommended practice or the new
> 'policy', if you will. It's as explicit and simple as it gets.

Yes, much easier to explain to a newcomer.  _We_ may get module() but
it's a subtle sideways beast, with pitfalls as pointed out by David M.
 (We also tend to forget our initial puzzlement with module())

Also, it is invariant with respect to the 5.1 -> 5.2 transformation ;)

steve d.