Re: Is the registry needed?

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Soni L. once stated:
> 
> 
> On 30/09/15 01:34 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> >>If Lua doesn't need a registry then neither does C.
> >That's not true. Lua is an embedded language and C code may need to
> >store things in a Lua state that Lua scripts cannot have access to
> >because of security. Not everything that can be done to Lua in C should
> >be exposed to Lua scripts.
> >
> function f()
> local i = 3
> return function() print(i) end
> end
> 
> Does another script have access to i?

  Only if the debug module is available.  But then again, if the debug
module is available, so is the registry.

  -spc