Re: strict.lua

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 1:52 AM, steve donovan
<steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, the whole idea of doing it with the command line flag is that
>> you can turn it on during development and then not have the overhead
>> of having a metatable on _G in production use.
>
> Ah, but strict.lua does not actually cost you anything, because _G's
> __index only gets fired if the symbol is _not_ found, which is an
> error condition.
>
> steve d.
>

Well, __newindex too, but on the assumption you don't create many
global variables I suppose that's a valid point.

/s/ Adam