Feature removals (was: Re: whatever happened to io.popen() ?)

[Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck@...>]

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf <at> tecgraf.puc-rio.br> writes:

: please remember that Lua evolves by removing things not by adding them! Up
: to now, this has been a Good Thing (TM).

That's interesting.  Are there any other features that are being considered
for removal?

What about declarations such as removing the local keyword (make local 
the default and use lexical scoping or _G if you don't want that) and 
removing   function f(x)   syntax (use f = function(x) instead).