On 2/12/2026 4:58 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
Hi,
I got used to declare
userdata = userdata or {}
at the begin of my Lua code, and use userdata.* for “public” variables
and functions, but I recognized that userdata is actually a Lua
datatype, so that might have been a misunderstanding.
Should I/we use userdata, thirddata or a different namespace convention?
moduledata is for modules (like m-*), thirddata is for third party
modules (like t-*) and userdata for users (like hraban)
all other global assignments will trigger a warning (so if you get one
that looks suspicious i.e. is my problem you can tell me)
Hans
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