Re: Local variables in the main block are global

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 25.04.2013 05:04 schröbte Owen Shepherd:
> Right, but what I was wishing for was the ability to name the parameters
> passed to the function returned by load()
>
> An example of the usage of this can be seen along the lines of HTML
> event handlers: Imagine an excerpt from a HTML document using Lua
> instead of JavaScript:
> <button onclick="table.insert(eventLog, ev)">Name</button>
> Browsers use the JavaScript functionality to load a fragment of code as
> a function with named parameters to inject variables like "ev" into the
> function's scope.

What about

    loadstring( "local eventLog, ev = ...\n" .. "table.insert(eventLog, 
ev)" )( eventLog, ev )

?

Philipp