Re: Why not Just PHP-stupid include?

[Joshua Jensen <josh.jjensen@...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Mc(avery
Date: 10/18/2011 8:42 AM
> On 11-10-18 10:01 AM, andre@leiradella.com wrote:
> > > Let's say I define 1 function and put it in a file called function.lua,
> > > it looks something like this:
> > >
> > > function silly1() print "reallly long string that greets user" end
> > >
> > > and define 1 local variable
> > > local x = 10
> > > and put it in another file called local.lua.
> > You do realize that in your example x is local but silly1 is global, 
> > right?
> >
> > Why don't you declare x as a global? It seems to me that it's what 
> > you want.
>
> No I meant them both to be local, it's not real code for anything I 
> want to do. I am just trying to say that if I type local x = 1 in 
> another file and then include it, I would like it become local to 
> where it was included from and not the file it was defined in.
FWIW, I was asking for something similar in [1].

[1] - http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-08/msg00910.html

-Josh