Re: Packaging and importing

[Diego Nehab <diego@...>]

Hi,

> 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...

I do this within LuaSocket's modules because I get rid of the namespace
metatable and therefore I have no globals at all after that. :)

I agree that for the command-line interpreter, this would be a pain. 
Maybe autoloading, as Mark proposed, is a solution. Outside of
command-line, people should actually require everything into locals
anyways, so I don't think removal would hurt anyone. On the contrary.

[]s,
Diego.