Re: package proposal

[Reuben Thomas <rrt@...>]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:

> > How about allowing modules to be packages?
>
> Meaning?

Merge the concepts of modules and packages. You already talk about 
modules being hierarchic.

> Yes, we could remove the stuff related to loadlib. On the other hand,
> I think it is important an easy way to use C modules in Lua; several
> current Lua modules has only C code.

Speaking as an author of some C-only modules, if it were necessary to 
add some easily-generated Lua boilerplate to get the code to load, I'm 
not sure that would be a problem, especially if it simplified the 
requires system rules.

> I do not allow `|' as a separator, do I?

Maybe I was misreading or misattributing an earlier post.

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