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Why aren variables locally scoped by default?

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Why aren variables locally scoped by default?

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It certainly feels easy to only explicitly declare globals when they are in a local context. The short answer is that Lua is not Python, but there are actually good reasons why lexically-scoped local variables have to be explicitly declared. See the wiki page.

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