Re: Lua Unofficial FAQ Addition

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick@...>]

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:04 AM, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Rob Hoelz <rob@hoelz.ro> wrote:
>> "How do I tell require to search relative to the current module?"
>
> It's a good question, because it illuminates the central role of package.path.
>
> The solution I use is to look at _G.arg[0] and work out the base path
> from that; this seems to work fine and is the basis for
> app.require_here() in Penlight:  Then we modify package.(c)path
> accordingly.

Hmm, I interpreted this question to mean requiring sub-modules. For
example, instead of socket.lua doing:

require "socket.http"

it can instead do

require "http"

The solution for this is a new package search loader I would imagine.
Maybe this isn't what the OP wanted though.

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- Patrick Donnelly