Re: local by default?

[Russ Webb <Russell.Webb@...>]

>> Personally, I like declaring all locals since it prevents typos from
>> creating side-effects,

> How so?

The rest of my intended statement was... AND, declaring global writes.

function foo()
local bat -- oops, typo
bar = 10 -- this is a undeclared global write -> error
return bar
end

function foo()
local bar
bat = 10 -- oops, typo -- this is a undeclared global write -> error
return bar
end

Russ