Re: Unclear grammar for global in 5.5

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On Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 2:49:45=E2=80=AFPM UTC+3 Luiz Henrique de Fig=
ueiredo=20
wrote:

> I'm confused by the absence of the "[=E2=80=98=3D=E2=80=99 explist]" in t=
he rule for=20
"global".=20

This has been fixed in Lua 5.5.1. See=20
https://www.lua.org/work/doc/manual.html#9


Thanks!

Is it a bug?

$ ./lua -e "global a; print()"
./lua: (command line):1: variable 'print' not declared

Sergey
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<br /><br /><div><div dir=3D"auto">On Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 2:49:45=E2=
=80=AFPM UTC+3 Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:<br /></div><blockquote st=
yle=3D"margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)=
; padding-left: 1ex;">&gt; I'm confused by the absence of the "[=E2=80=98=
=3D=E2=80=99 explist]" in the rule for "global".
<br />
<br />This has been fixed in Lua 5.5.1. See
<br /><a href=3D"https://www.lua.org/work/doc/manual.html#9" target=3D"_bla=
nk" rel=3D"nofollow">https://www.lua.org/work/doc/manual.html#9</a></blockq=
uote><div><br /></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br /></div><div>Is it a bug?<=
/div><div><br /></div><div><div></div><div>$ ./lua -e "global a; print()"<b=
r />./lua: (command line):1: variable 'print' not declared</div><div><br />=
</div><div>Sergey</div>=C2=A0</div></div>

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