Any thoughts on "don't repeat yourself" in name localization? Is this a non-problem? Is it just premature optimization? Or premature calls for a fix? :-)
On a related note, I'd be curious to know the Lua authors' current position on Peter's table unpack patch. Did they consider it for 5.2? Might they consider it for a later revision?
It does provide a fairly nice simplification of all Jay's examples:
local tostring in _ENV
local insert,concat in table
local lxp,ml,plutils in _IMPORT
(Though to get that last one to work you need to define an appropriate __index method for _IMPORT.)
-Sven
