On 14 June 2012 05:04, Geoff Leyland <geoff_leyland@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 14/06/2012, at 1:20 PM, Mike Pall wrote: >> Oh, and 'local point = {}' ... > > That one was so it worked when I pasted it to the command line to check it. You can always put a "do ... end" around the code with locals to make it work in the interactive interpreter. I usually write "do" automatically before pasting any code.