Re: [ANN] Luacheck 0.19.0

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2017-03-03 20:01 GMT+02:00 Peter Aronoff <telemachus@arpinum.org>:
> Peter Melnichenko <mpeterval@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've released Luacheck 0.19.0.
>
> Thanks!
>
> A quick question, and I apologize because I don’t recall if this was an
> issue before or it’s new. Like a lot of people, I now use this in modules
> that require unpack:
>
>         local unpack = unpack or table.unpack
>
> That, however, yields this warning from luacheck:
>
>         src/tapered.lua:9:16: accessing undefined variable unpack
>
> I get what’s happening here, and I can simply choose to ignore this
> warning, but I wonder if people have any thoughts about how else to handle
> a cross-lua module that uses unpack.
>
> Thanks, Peter
> --
> We have not been faced with the need to satisfy someone else's
> requirements, and for this freedom we are grateful.
>     Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, The UNIX Time-Sharing System

You could try

    local unpack = table.unpack or unpack

Speaking as someone who does not feel the need to satisfy luacheck's
requirements, I can't test whether that will do the trick.