dofile() like require()

[Markus Huber <pulse@...>]

Why is the LUA_PATH behaviour of dofile() not equivalent to require()?
I don't like to switch between two ways of accessing files e.g:

require(                             'Lib/Lua/Library.lua')
 dofile('/usr/local/apache/htdocs/'..'Lib/Lua/Test/dofile/Dummy.lua')

I think its easier to understand, better to read, less errors...

require('Lib/Lua/Library.lua')
 dofile('Lib/Lua/Test/dofile/Dummy.lua')

I have done it and don't see negative aspects. Please let me know why do
you think this should not be done. By the way: I like the very
interesting Receiver() function mechanism.


 do

    local Flag,Vararg
    local Receiver=function(Intercept,...) Flag,Vararg = Intercept,arg end

    local Function=dofile

    function dofile(File)

       Receiver(pcall(Function,File))
       if Flag==false then
          local Path,Argument = LUA_PATH
          if type(Path)~='string' then
             Path=os.getenv('LUA_PATH') or './?.lua'
          end
          for Path in string.gfind(Path,'[^;]+') do
             Argument=string.gsub(Path,'%?',File)
             Receiver(pcall(Function,Argument))
             if Flag then break end
          end
       end

       return(unpack(Vararg))

    end

 end


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Markus