Show HN: LadyLua, batteries-included static Lua 5.1 interpreter

Re:Show HN: LadyLua, batteries-included static Lua 5.1 inter... by the_hoser on Thursday April 08, 2021 @02:33PM (#26742144)

This doesn't appear to really do anything to address the one big problem I've had with using Lua for larger applications. Does GopherLua still have global-by-default variables?

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Re:Show HN: LadyLua, batteries-included static Lua 5.1 inter... by samatman on Thursday April 08, 2021 @02:51PM (#26742337)

I've found this to be completely solved by using the strict mode provided by penlight.

It becomes a shallow runtime bug, so it isn't a compiler failure. But I've literally never had a misspelled global stick around for long enough to qualify as a "bug" rather than a mistake. I have polluted the global namespace once or twice by assigning to a new misspelled global in the outermost chunk, which is a little more bugesque, but very seldom.

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Re:Show HN: LadyLua, batteries-included static Lua 5.1 inter... by the_hoser on Thursday April 08, 2021 @03:00PM (#26742430)

Neat. I'll try to remember that the next time I need to work with Lua.

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