Jérôme Vuarand writes: > It would be nice to replace package.loaders with package.searchers in > a future version, or eventually have both point to the same table for > backward compatibility. I've come across this inconsistency too when writing ModuleExecutionProposal [1]. It doesn't help that package.loaders is an array of searchers rather than loaders. Python has a similar type of mechanism [2]. [1] http://lua-users.org/wiki/ModuleExecutionProposal [2] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0302/