Re: Modify Lua Executable for a -51 option

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Russell Haley once stated:
> On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 5:43 PM, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> 
> >   If you are going down this path, then plan to go all-out:  options can be
> > set by
> >
> >         command line, which overrides (or extends)
> >         environment variables, which overrides
> >         per-directory config file (example ./megalua.conf), which overrides
> >         per-user config file (example $HOME/.megalua), which overrides
> >         system-wide config file (example /etc/megalua), which overrides
> >         default setting in the program.
> >
> 
> That's exactly what I was thinking but perhaps a slightly different order
> of override:
> - command line overides
> - local directory config file overrides
> - environment variables
> - user config file
> - global per interpreter file

  I would still put environmental over local directory, because you can
specify a temporary setting for an environment variable for running a
command:

[spc]lucy:~>lua -e 'print(os.getenv "HOME")'
/home/spc
[spc]lucy:~>HOME=/tmp lua -e 'print(os.getenv "HOME")'
/tmp
[spc]lucy:~>lua -e 'print(os.getenv "HOME")'
/home/spc
[spc]lucy:~>

  -spc