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On 12/12/06, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> This behaviour means that all earlier local declarations of the
> variable become completely shadowed by later local declarations at the
> same scope. I am afraid it makes code less readable.
>
> local x="first declaration"
> local x="second declaration" -- the same scope

Then don't write code like that.  Problem solved.
Russ

I chose a minimalistic example for illustration purposes only. Please,
refer to Asko Kauppi's message earlier in this thread for a realistic
code example which causes  a run-time error (calling nil as a
function)

--Leo--