RE: "require" succesful, but returns "nil"

["Frantisek Fuka" <fuka@...>]

> > Yes, I understand perfectly. However, according to the documentation
> > for "require"
> > (http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#pdf-require),
> > after calling require ("foo") while the "foo" file begins with
> > "module(bar)", the value of package.loaded["foo"] ("foo", not "bar"!)
> > should be set to true, which it isn't. It's nil!
>
> Here is what I get :
> -- foo.lua
> module("bar", package.seeall)
> print("loading ".._NAME.." as "..(...))
> -- test.lua --> the output
> local tmp = require 'foo' --> loading bar as foo
> print(tmp) --> true
> print(package.loaded.foo) --> true
> print(package.loaded.bar) --> table: 00336EC0
>
> So if you don't get that your installation has a problem. Are you using
> Lua 5.0 with compat-5.1 ?

Oh, now we are getting to the heart of the problem. The above is what
I expected and I wasn't getting it. Specifically, I was getting "nil"
instead of "true" at the "print (tmp)" line.

You know what the problem was? I was inputting the lines at the Lua
command prompt and thus "local tmp = ... " was different variable than
the one in "print (tmp)". Oops... Sorry all...

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