Re: Conceptual problem with module

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

Alex Queiroz wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> On 4/24/06, Chris Marrin <chris@marrin.com> wrote:
>
> > Module used like this:
> >
> >     module "foo"
> >     function bar() ... end
> >
> > I can put the above into a file called foo.lua and the require function
> > will load it. But if I did only this, calling foo.bar() as above would
> > fail, because local foo would be nil, because I did not return anything
> > from the implementation. In order to get foo.lua to work I would have to
> > do this:
> >
> >     local package = package
> >     module "foo"
> >     function bar() ... end
> >     return package.loaded.foo
>
>
>      No. All globals declared in the module will be put in the module
> table, which will be returned by require().

But experience shows that, after you call 'module' there will be a 
global variable (_G.foo in this case). If you look at ll_module() you 
will see that it does indeed add this global variable.

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