Re: Packaging and importing

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 17-Aug-05, at 9:27 AM, Chris Marrin wrote:

> I am using the wrong term. When I say "locals" I mean properties of 
> the "local namespace", which is the environment being used by a 
> particular function. So, if I have module 'a' and I want to import 
> some or all of its properties into the environment of a function, I 
> would just copy the property references from the module to the 
> environment. They are both just tables, right?

You could do that, but it's not easy to see what advantages that would 
give you aside from saving a few keystrokes, I suppose. The package 
namespace is in effect the public interface to a package; I wouldn't 
have thought that importing random names into it would be a good idea.