Re: _SELF and _SUPER

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Soni L. once stated:
> 
> On 05/08/16 05:32 PM, Rain Gloom wrote:
> >Just do your own debug.* hacks, I'm fairly positive you can embedd 
> >some debug.getinfo and .getlocal in your _ENV's __index and do it.
> >
> >On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 8:38 AM, steve donovan 
> ><steve.j.donovan@gmail.com <mailto:steve.j.donovan@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >    On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 8:34 AM, Thomas Jericke <tjericke@indel.ch
> >    <mailto:tjericke@indel.ch>> wrote:
> >    >> Doctor, when I put the finger into my own eye it hurts!
> >    >
> >    >> Then don't put it there.
> >
> >    Exactly.  Addiction to very short variable names leads to these
> >    symptoms.
> >
> >
> load(string.dump(chunk, true))() --> works with proposal, fails with 
> debug.* (not counting sandbox support, compile-time optimizations, etc)

  Why does this fail?  What doesn't work with debug.*?  What is the problem
you are trying to solve?  Just saying "it doesn't work" doesn't tell  *us*
much about what this is trying to do.

  -spc