Re: modules and require all

[Rena <hyperhacker@...>]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Rapin Patrick <rapin.patrick@gmail.com> wrote:
>> -- program using _ENV
>> local a = 'local var'
>> do
>>   local _ENV = require 'mod'
>>   print(a)  --> local var
>> end
>>
>
> A potential solution would be to introduce a new "global" or "unlocal"
> keyword, which would force the compiler to perform a global (_ENV) access,
> overriding the local scope of a variable.
>
>
> local a = 'local var'
> do
>   local _ENV = require 'mod'
>   global a
>   print(a)  --> from module
> end
>

My thought was "unset a", that would destroy the local a completely,
so future references would look for a global. But upvalues might make
this quite difficult to actually implement and use correctly.

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