Re: scope, design patterns?

["Patrick Mc(avery" <spell_gooder_now@...>]

Thanks very much Javier

Information is finally starting to penetrate through my skull!

Would this be a useful layout:
files === main.lua, localsCollector.lua, library.lua

---untested pseudo code-----
localsCollector.lua file:

local maintable = {}

do
dofile(library.lua)--library.lua has local table A
maintable.A = A
end

repeat adding more local tables to maintable....
end

return maintable

then I could bring maintable into main.lua with another dofile()

Thanks to your code, I'd have one big table with several nested tables 
that are private to one another.

Every time I add a local table to maintable I am not assigning new 
variables right? but just referring to the ones defined in another scope?

There seems to be some differences of opinion about modules, would this 
layout work and allow me to dodge the module debate?

Thanks again for your time-Patrick