Re: manual correction

["Aaron Brown" <arundelo@...>]

Ryanne Thomas Dolan wrote:

> In the 5.1 manual's description of package.loaded, it says
> require will return the value of package.loaded
> [modulename] if the value "is not false".  I believe this
> should read "is not false or nil".

The full quote is:

> When you require a module modname and
> package.loaded[modname] is not false, require simply
> returns the value stored there.

I can see how someone might misread this but, consistently
with the rest of the manual, "false" here is in a regular
typeface, which means it's being used as an adjective (e.g.,
"*nil* is a false value"; the keyword "false" always appears
in a special typeface (e.g., "the boolean value *false*".

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--
Aaron