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- Subject: Re: Static variables
- From: "D Burgess" <db@...>
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 9:13:37 +1000
>As a proponent of functional programming
Buy the book
http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/book/
Worthwile from a programming perspective, even if you
dont use Lua.
regards
David B
Phil Bewig <[email protected]> wrote:
>Phil Bewig <pbewig <at> swbell.net> writes:
>
>>
>> I'm considering lua for a specific project. One of my needs is for static
>> variables that retain their value from one invocation of a function to the
>> next. In a quick reading of the manual section on variable scoping, I saw
>> no mention of static variables. Does lua provide static variables? Did I
>> miss something while reading the manual?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Phil
>>
>>
>>
>Thanks for the replies. So many, and so quickly!
>
>I should have figured this out myself, as Scheme and ML both arrange things
>the same way; I didn't immediately understand the nature of blocks during my
>quick scan of the manual. As a proponent of functional programming, one of
>the features that makes me consider lua is first-class functions, though I
>might miss built-in lists (yes, I know I can simulate them with hash tables).
>What else will likely be familiar to me?
>
>Phil
