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panic on Sept 30, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tessel: The end of web development as we know it

It's the same in JavaScript:

   x = 5; // global
   var x = 5; // local

Lua just replaces var with local:

   x = 5  -- global
   local x = 5  -- local

icambron on Sept 30, 2013 | [–]

"JavaScript Done Right" requires actually doing it right.

riquito on Sept 30, 2013 | | [–]

Whatever javascript does, it does not make Lua's default global variables look any better

nilkn on Sept 30, 2013 | | [–]

To be fair, using 'local' instead of 'var' does make the situation a lot clearer.

woah on Sept 30, 2013 | [–]

'Use strict';

catwell on Oct 2, 2013 | [–]

This is actually what we do in Lua, often written `require "pl.strict"`...

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