Re: [ANN] lglob 0.8 Extended Globals Checker for Lua

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:45 AM, steve donovan
<steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Monsieur! I object to your frivolous use of the "m" word! Please elaborate
>> why using _ENV in 5.2 involves any dark magic!
>
>
> Ah, magic it may be, but not _dark_ magic. That is setfenv.
>
> I like to look at code and know immediately how to look up any symbol.  This
> lesson I learned from excessive use of 'with' in Pascal.
>
> And the tortuous business of learning C++ symbol lookup rules well enough to
> implement them has left permanent scars....
>

Mm, I'll be doing that fairly soon myself, though I managed to get
through the preprocessor and the lexer without losing my sanity.

/s/ Adam