Re: question on local vs nonlocal

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Ahmed Charles once stated:
> 
> My intent is to have ‘global’ (the exact keyword used matters less) be an
> explicit maker of which variables should have _ENV. prepended. I.e. it
> doesn’t change the byte code emitted for any existing program, it would
> only require adding a declaration for each error issued during load.

  So why not use '_ENV.' in place of 'global'?  It's already supported by
Lua, and it makes it *very* easy to locate the use of global variables.

  -spc (Or maybe Roberto and Co. can change the name of _ENV to global?)
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