Re: [proposal] require resources
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- Subject: Re: [proposal] require resources
- From: "Soni \"They/Them\" L." <fakedme@...>
- Date: 2020年1月19日 23:31:24 -0300
On 2020年01月19日 11:20 p.m., Egor Skriptunoff wrote:
On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 4:26 AM Soni "They/Them" L. wrote:
If you had:
LUA_PATH/foo/init.lua
LUA_PATH/foo/bar/init.lua
LUA_PATH/foo/bar/res.txt
then require("foo.bar", "res.txt") would get you the contents of
LUA_PATH/foo/bar/res.txt
Should require() cache resources the same way as modules?
not quite the same: yes, but with __mode="v"
Would it be possible to have a module containing only resources
without any code?
yes
Could main program have its own resources (files from the same directory)?
require(nil, "res.txt")
evil, but maybe? why not just put them in a submodule?
Resources might be large enough, so it would be better to return a
pseudo-file object
instead of huge Lua string.
local res = open_resource("foo.bar", "res.txt")
local data = res:read("*a")
res:close()
tell me, when was the last time you didn't need to keep your app's icons
loaded once you loaded them for the first time? in any case __mode="v"
should help with this.