Re: The "Environment Stack" (+ lexically scoped string metatables)

[Paige DePol <lual@...>]

Soni They/Them L. <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:

>>> `"%s %s" % {"hello", "world!"}` without affecting other modules/the main program.
>> I am sorry, but I don't understand the backtick string you've posted?
> 
> getmetatable("").__mod = function(a, b)
>   return string.format(a, table.unpack(b))
> end

Ah, okay, I get it now, thank you for the clarification! ;)

So the idea is that a module could be loaded and set that metatable and it
would then be active for the scope of that module only while not affecting
any of the other running code?

~Paige