Sure, which is why I said "surprising" and not "inconsistent" or "weird". New Lua devs are likely to have to debug an issue caused by typing "ponits" instead of

Sure, which is why I said "surprising" and not "inconsistent" or "weird". New Lua devs are likely to have to debug an issue caused by typing "ponits" instead of "points" well before they get to the point that they learn about the global table.