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Diego Nehab wrote:
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...
In the second incarnation of this battle I came in swinging for the "locals-by-default" corps and was quickly converted to the other camp with this single missive:
 http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2005-08/msg00139.html
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