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		Avshalom on Jan 27, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In Love with LÖVE It does have full lexical scoping, however "global by default" is good for scripting, questionable for standalone programming. I general yes Lua is a great language, I have a lot of fun writing in it. But it does have its warts (though fewer than Javascript).

brianto2010 on Jan 28, 2013 | [–]

For what it's worth, you can use the local keyword to limit the scope of variables.

http://www.lua.org/pil/4.2.html

ricardobeat on Jan 28, 2013 | [–]

Have you heard of moonscript[1]? It is a bit quirky but makes var declarations local by default.

[1] http://moonscript.org/

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