lua source as config file

[gary ng <garyng2000@...>]

I am sure this must have come up before but failed to
search it through google etc.

at the moment, my relatively ugly solution is just
this :

dofile("my_config.lua")

where my_config.lua is like this :

my_config={ ... all sorts of embedded table ...}

This however pollute the namespace. What I want is to
do something like this(imaginary):

in my program:

local my_config=dofile("my_config.lua")

where the same table is created but not polluting the
name space.


 
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