Subroutine arguments not right yet

["Jeff Wise" <jwise@...>]

In reference to my previous question about passing arguments to a program
which is invoked via "loadfile", here is the complete source to the calling
program.  The "dummy2" is a "hello, world" program which also prints the two
arguments that were passed to it.

Here is the calling program:

pgm = "c:\\lua\\source\\dummy2.lua"

  arg1 = "Apple"

  arg2 = "Banana"
  
  print("---------------------------------------")
  print("---------------------------------------")  
  print(" ")
  --print(os.execute("time"))
  print(" ")
  print("Program Name ==> ", pgm)
  print("Arg 1        ==> ", arg1)
  print("Arg 2        ==> ", arg2)
  print(" ")
  print("---------------------------------------")  

  print("Call # 1 --------------------------------")
  assert(loadfile(pgm))(arg1, arg2)  --(arg1, arg2))
  print("-----------------------------------------")
  
  print("Call # 2 --------------------------------")
  assert(loadfile("C:\\lua\\source\\dummy2.lua")) 
  print("-----------------------------------------")
  
  print("Call # 3 --------------------------------")
  assert(loadfile("C:\\lua\\source\\dummy2.lua"))("apple", "banana") 
  print("-----------------------------------------")

When I execute this program (Win/XP, version 5.1.2), I get no output for
call 2, and messages that arg1 & arg2 are nil from calls 1 and 3. I do
understand that the actual "args" are written as "arg[1]" and "arg[2]".

I can invoke dummy2 from the command line with:

C:\lua\source\dummy2.lua "apple" "banana" 

I will get the expected output this way.  The purpose of this exercise is to
programmatically build and pass the "parms" to successor programs, i.e.
another form of modularization.

TIA










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