Re: lua.c dolibrary not installing traceback - bug or by design?

[roberto@... (Roberto Ierusalimschy)]

> Let load.lua contain this:
> 
>   function f() error'fail' end; f()
> 
> Running any of these produces an error and traceback:
> 
>   lua load.lua
>   lua -e 'require "load.lua"'
> 
> But running this produces an error with no traceback:
> 
>   lua -lload
> 
> This occurs because dolibrary in lua.c does not install traceback.  It could do
> so if the pcall is replaced with a docall as in dofile and dostring.
> 
> Is this behavior intentional?

Not at all. This is a bug. Thanks for the report.

-- Roberto