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		veli_joza on Sept 19, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fennel – Lisp in Lua It works if you run both expressions from file. There's a tutorial page that explains why this doesn't work in REPL. See "Locals are per-chunk" here: https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel/blob/master/tutorial.md#g...

eggy on Sept 19, 2018 [–]

Thanks, that makes sense. I will also try making it a global value assuming global works in the online REPL.

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