Re: How to change _ENV's value in a pure C function?

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On Thur,2011-12-29，Xavier Wang <weasley.wx@gmail.com> wrote﹕
>I have looked into Lua5.2's module's implement, it has a C function
>set_env, but this function only changed the value of the first upvalue
>of current function. So if we call module in a function, not in a
>file, it will be confused.

Thank you for pointing this out. As lua function/closure inherit environment and _ENV is the first upvalue of lua function/closure. So with the help of the debug feature, we can get the closure of the caller lua function and set another table for the first upvalue of the closure.