Re: question on _ENV

[Andrew Gierth <andrew@...>]

>>>>> "Coda" == Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> writes:

 Coda> The advantage is exactly the same thing: it uses the standard
 Coda> language mechanisms instead of poking at the function internals,
 Coda> and it ends up also being a little more flexible and I think a
 Coda> bit more elegant in the implementation.

Also, when sandboxing, getfenv/setfenv have to be removed from the
sandbox or basically rewritten (since a Lua caller can do basically
unlimited damage with them) whereas _ENV in a sandbox works exactly as
normal without introducing any issues or exposing anything.

-- 
Andrew.