Using Lua from the Command Line With ... for Function - command-line

Question

I've used Lua with Corona SDK for a long time, but I only just downloaded the standalone Lua interpreter (invoked from the command line). When I use
lua main.lua
From the Mac terminal, for some reason, any functions that use (...) no longer have access to arg as their ... arguments; rather, arg now points to the command line arguments.
My question: is there a way to invoke Lua from the command line and still have functions like
local function myFunction(...)
print(arg[1])
end
With them pointing to the their own ... arguments, not the command line ones?

Answer 1

What about saving those command line arguments on some variable or table just at the entry point? Example:
local function myFunction(...)
print(cmd_arg)
end
-- Entry point:
local cmd_arg = arg[1]
myFunction()
or collecting all of command line arguments into table:
local function myFunction(...)
print(cmd_arg[1])
end
-- Entry point:
local cmd_args = {}
for _, cmd_arg in arg do
table.insert(cmd_args, cmd_arg)
end
myFunction()
EDIT: the solution is already mentioned here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9787126/1150918
arg appears to be deprecated since 5.1.
And Michal Kottman's solution was:
function debug(name, ...)
local arg = table.pack(...)
print(name)
for i=1,arg.n do
print(i, arg[i])
end
end