Re: Is "scripting" truly Lua's future?

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, David Given wrote:
>
> All my Lua files tend to start with the same boilerplate containing
> lists of:
>
> local string_find = string.find
> local table_insert = table.insert
> local print = print
>
> ...etc. It would be really nice to be able to common this somehow.

I suppose if you aren't using bytecode you could append your boilerplate
to the start of a module when loading it. Slightly grotty, though.

Tony.
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