Re: Require (4.1-work)
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- Subject: Re: Require (4.1-work)
- From: Edgar Toernig <froese@...>
- Date: 2001年5月11日 19:02:47 +0200
Jean-Claude Wippler wrote:
>
> Maybe it is preferable to make "dofile" also mark the file as loaded?
Uff. Better not! Sometimes you want to load files multiple times.
> This has the benefit that a main script called "m", calling three
> other scripts "a", "b", and "c", can then be compiled as follows:
> % luac -o m.out a b c m
>
> If "m" contains:
> require "a"; require "b"; require "c"
> <do something useful>
> then "lua m" and "lua m.out" would do the same thing.
Making this work requires more magic...
> Another question: why was "require" coded in C, and not in Lua?
You have a bootstrapping problem :-)
require "require" ???
Ciao, ET.