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2015-07-09 19:13 GMT+02:00 Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@trms.com>:

> I will not rest until we can use Lua patterns for variable names:
>
> .*_foo = nil

Does this mean

for k in pairs(_ENV) do if type(k)=="string" and k:match"_foo$" then
   _ENV[k] = nil
end end

? If so, I find it quite easy to rest (go to bed, in fact; local time is 00:24)
without having a lump of syntactic sugar.