RE: general globals in use

["Thijs Schreijer" <thijs@...>]

> From: lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org [mailto:lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org] On
> Behalf Of Roberto Ierusalimschy
> Sent: woensdag 12 december 2012 14:48
> Subject: Re: general globals in use

> Lua has the following convention:
> 
>   http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#3.1
> 
>   As a convention, names starting with an underscore followed by
>   uppercase letters (such as _VERSION) are reserved for variables used
>   by Lua.
> 
> In particular, the use of _TEST by an external library breaks it.
> 
> -- Roberto

How do "names" relate to table keys? The _VERSION is a name, but also a key
in _G.
Does this mean that the common module conventions for;
  module._VERSION
  module._COPYRIGHT
  module._DESCRIPTION
(straight from copas) are also breaking the rules?

Thijs