Re: Q: Lua 5.2 thread environments...

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

Jerome Vuarand <jerome.vuarand@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Inside your function, you can get the environment of the caller with
> getfenv, by passing it a number. You can then replace the current
> function environment with that.

But not in 5.2. Even in 5.1 it sounds like a really bad idea to me.

Tony.
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