Re: Putting version information, description, copright into modules

["Soni L." <fakedme@...>]

On 11/02/16 10:29 PM, Peter Aronoff wrote:
> Jonathan Goble <jcgoble3@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have always interpreted the manual's "convention" as referring
> > specifically to global names (i.e. fields in _G), since Lua may use such
> > names for its own purposes (e.g. _G and _VERSION). I've never interpreted
> > it to mean that such names should be avoided even in module tables, since
> > Lua itself doesn't use such names anywhere but _G.
> That's what I've always thought too. But since the manual's advice has come
> up a couple of times on this thread, I thought I would check what others
> thought.
>
> Thanks.
Don't forget locals. You don't want to have a local named _ENV unless 
you mean the lexically-scoped environment.

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