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"The environment of the returned function is the global environment."
 
http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#pdf-load
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2014 5:21 PM
Subject: runtime execution fails why?

Collecting function calls for example  r(3,4) in a table I would like to execute these. But testing reveals I do something wrong.
The program in essence:

local function test(t)
local function r(a,b) return string.format(“a = %d b = %d”, a, b) end
for i =1,10 do
local f = load(t[i])
f()
end
end

This fails with error message:
/usr/local/bin/lua: [string "r(2,364)"]:1: attempt to call global 'r' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
[string "r(2,364)"]:1: in function 'f'

What is wrong in my code? Why is function r considered global and not found in the scope of function test(t)?

Thanks in advance
Hans van der Meer