Re: Say No to global-by-default

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Gregg Reynolds once stated:
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2018, 4:42 PM Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> 
> > It was thus said that the Great Gregg Reynolds once stated:
> > > Ok, but what does that have to do with spelling?
> >
> >   I mispelled 'baz' as 'baa'
> 
> Haha! But that screws up your example.

  Okay, fine:

	int foo()
	{
	  int baz;
	  // lots of code here
	  return baa;
	}

and

	function foo()
	  local baz
	  -- lots of code here
	  return baa
	end

Better?  C will compilain about 'baa' not being defined, while Lua will
silently treat 'baa' as a global value and return nil.

  -spc (I still get bit by this in Lua, but luacheck helps here)