Re: Seemingly inconsistency between function in a local variable and local function

[Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>]

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Jerome Vuarand <jerome.vuarand@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/4/2 Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>:
>> Why is that?  What did I overlook?
>
> Every time you write the keyword "local", you create/declare a new
> local variable, which can shadow another one with the same name.

Ah!  I wasn't aware of that.  Page http://www.lua.org/pil/4.2.html
does not mention this.

> You can either use
> your syntax, or you can write it like that:
>
> local f2
> local function f1() return f2() end
> function f2() return 123 end -- note the absence of local keyword

Good to know.

Thank you and Steve!

Kind regards

robert

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