RE: External modules was Re: Ideas for implementing commercial support for Lua

["Nick Trout" <ntrout@...>]

> > Does this include game consoles, PDAs and cellphones?
> 
> My contention was not that dynamic libraries are ubiquitous, but that
> they are more than just a Windows-specific hack.  Some PDAs 
> support the
> notion of dynamically loaded code, for example PocketPC/WinCE and
> Sharp/Zaurus.  Most game consoles do not.

Are overlays considered as "DLL"s? Don't most consoles support these?
TBH, I'm not an expert here - I'm assuming overlays might be static, not
dynamic (correct?). However, if a dynamic module system were to exist
you could load these, eg. to load a debug lib or something.

Nick