Re: In praise of globals

[Josh Simmons <simmons.44@...>]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@trms.com> wrote:
>
> How about if the following were allowed:
>
> Local, followed by one or more variable names, separated by a comma and not
> followed by an equal sign, is to be read as the equivalent of assigning a
> global variable of the same name to the local scope. Such that:
>
> local print, table, math, coroutine.create
>
> is equivalent to:
>
> local print, table, math, create = print, table, math, coroutine.create
>

This topic has been discussed to death on this list, do we really have
to discuss it again?