Re: Local Variables

[Elias Barrionovo <elias.tandel@...>]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
> But you're exactly right -- you could do that, and many people DO
> exactly that as an optimization.

More than that; it's generally considered a bad habbit to use globals,
especially when creating libraries, or otherwise there's a good chance
there will be name conflicts.

Now why lua variables are global by default is something that shows up
quite often here on the mailing list. If you search the lua-l archives
you'll se a lot of discussion about that. Key search terms would be
"global by defaul", "local by default" and "lexical scoping".

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