Hi,
What were the design motivations leading to all variables being global, and limiting them to the block scope only when 'local' is used ? Why not the reverse (all variables local to block scope expect where noted 'global') ?You can read about the great "Globals-Locals by default" war anywhere between these two threads:
4 Aug 2005 http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2005-08/msg00132.html 14 Nov 1997 http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/1997-11/msg00018.html Hundreds of good programmers have been killed in the conflict.In the end, the "Globals" tribe won. Let's not start another one...
Regards, Diego.