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Pass command line arguments through arg table

	Command line arguments are now available through the global arg table.
	As with the standard lua interpreter, positive indices are arguments, program
	and script names are at indices <= 0.

--- a/lua9.c

+++ b/lua9.c

@@ -25,6 +25,22 @@

 	{ NULL, NULL },

 };

+static void 

+createargtable (lua_State *L, char **argv, int argc, int script)

+{

+	int i, narg;

+

+	if (script == argc)

+		script = 0;  /* no script name? */

+	narg = argc - (script + 1);  /* number of positive indices */

+	lua_createtable(L, narg, script + 1);

+	for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {

+	  lua_pushstring(L, argv[i]);

+	  lua_rawseti(L, -2, i - script);

+	}

+	lua_setglobal(L, "arg");

+}

+

 int

 main(int argc, char *argv[])

 {

@@ -39,6 +55,7 @@

 		luaL_requiref(L, lib->name, lib->func, 1);

 		lua_pop(L, 1);

 	}

+	createargtable(L, argv, argc, 1);

 	r = luaL_dofile(L, argc > 1 ? argv[1] : NULL);

 	if(r != LUA_OK){

 		s = luaL_checkstring(L, lua_gettop(L));