Re: Local Variables

[Mason Mackaman <masondeanm@...>]

So could I have an example of where one would want or need to declare a global variable?
On Aug 7, 2014, at 12:05 PM, Elias Barrionovo <elias.tandel@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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".
> 
> -- 
> NI!
> 
> () - www.asciiribbon.org
> /\ - ascii ribbon campaign against html e-mail and proprietary attachments
>