Re: Packaging and importing

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 15-Aug-05, at 3:30 PM, Diego Nehab wrote:

> People would still write
>
>     socket = require"socket"
>
> instead of
>
>     local socket = require"socket"

Not if all the examples they saw had the second construction, I suspect.

I like Mark's idea of autoloading modules for the stand-alone 
interpreter, for what it's worth.

Question: should we start recommending that people use require for 
standard libraries, too? :

local math = require "math"

I'd personally like to move in that direction...

R.