Re: Flush the term upvalue from 5.1 manual

[Ralph Hempel <rhempel@...>]

Eduardo Ochs wrote:
> Tcl has a function "upvar" that gives access to a variable in an outer
> scope, and a function "uplevel" that runs code in an outer scope.

I was going to mention this, but I think the difference is that
Lua uses lexical scope, where Tcl's use of upvar and uplevel is
through a procedure call stack frame.

Slight difference in semantics, but same general idea of being
able to reference things outside of some type of local
scope.

Ralph