[Pytlask]

Originally Posted by Azul I'm really starting to hate lua with a passion. To bad there are no alternatives.

What programming languages have you used previously? We may be able to provide parallels to make this easier for you to understand.

As far as I know though, all of the popular ones use a similar scoping mechanism to Lua. The primary difference is that most languages default to local scoping while Lua defaults to global scoping.

The following are essentially equivalent:

Lua:

do
	local varName = 1;
end

C/C++:

do {
	int varName = 1;
}

Python:

def aFunc ():
	varName = 1

It seems to me that you are confusing the Lua "local" keyword with the C/C++ "static" keyword.

Edit: If you need 60 local variables, you are doing something wrong. Is there a reason you can't just show us the code you have right now so that we might suggest a better method?