Re: "module" tutorial

[Mildred <ml.mildred593@...>]

> Any reason(s) for 'module' littering the global environment?

I think it's for compatibility with lua 5.0 ... no ?
But we also changed the whole module package, so why ? Moreover, the
documentation of the module function don't specify that it uses a
global table (unless the global table already exists :

> module (name [, ...])
> 
> Creates a module. If there is a table in package.loaded[name], this
> table is the module. Otherwise, if there is a global table t with the
> given name, this table is the module. Otherwise creates a new table t
> and sets it as the value of the global name and the value of
> package.loaded[name].


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