Re: "static <type> <varname>;" like C in lua?

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 9:04 PM,  <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Sean,
>
> sorry for being inexact...
>
> I am in search of a way to create a variable in the scope of a
> function which is persistent i.e. does not loose it content over
> several calls of its funtion.
>
> best regards,
> mcc

You want to use an upvalue.

Something like this:

local fn
do
    local staticvar = 3
    fn = function() staticvar = staticvar + 1 end
end

/s/ Adam