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Usage
Include this module at the top of your code.
An error will be raised any time your code tries to read or write to a non-local (undeclared) variable.
localmt=getmetatable(_G)or{}functionmt.__index(t,k)ifk~='arg'thenerror('Tried to read nil global '..tostring(k),2)endreturnnilendfunctionmt.__newindex(t,k,v)ifk~='arg'thenerror('Tried to write global '..tostring(k),2)endrawset(t,k,v)endsetmetatable(_G,mt)