Re: Minor documentation inconsistency

Roberto Ierusalimschy <[email protected]> Mon, 6 Jul 2026 14:59:26 -0300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.lua.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> It seems like "global attnamelist" is also wrong in another way: When you 
> don't supply the ['=' explist], it doesn't accept a spread attribute (first 
> attribute shared between all declared values).

Are you talking about the code or the documentation? Which version?


> Also, it seems like it ignores the const-ness of global variables.
> Valid:
>     > global test<const> = 45
>     > test = 23
> 
> What's up with that?

Each line in the REPL is an independent chunk. The scope of 'global' goes
only until the end of the chunk (in that case, end of the line).

-- Roberto

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