Re: mathlib
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- Subject: Re: mathlib
- From: Sean Conner <sean@...>
- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 23:14:07 -0400
It was thus said that the Great Tim Hill once stated:
>
> On Apr 7, 2014, at 6:50 PM, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
>
> > Your mention of "the right compiler" triggered a thought: is the fagility
> > of require() due to Windows and not inherently with Lua itself? (Or maybe a
> > distinction between a consumer operating system like Windows/Mac OS-X and a
> > non-consumer operating system like Unix? [1]) [2]
>
> Partly, yes I think it is. But it’s also one of the more intricate designs
> in Lua, which makes creating predictable installs of libraries hard to do
> unless you control the complete OS installation, libraries, and scripts,
> even assuming you can compile things cleanly.
Then how do other langauges like Perl, Python, PHP or Ruby handle this?
They all have a way of loading additional code (or modules).
-spc