Re: Local Variables

[Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>]

On Aug 10, 2014, at 12:30 AM, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:

 Lua doesn't use sigils nor is its parser capable of dealing with keywords
as identifiers.  So, in order to prevent code breakage, some of us Lua users
are conservative when it comes to adding new keywords.

I seem to recall that very early versions of Lua made some use of sigils, but I could be wrong on this.

—Tim