RE: Problem(?) with luaL_register

["Tom Miles" <Tom@...>]

> > but that doesn't get around the fact that the luaL_register function
> > doesn't always seem to do what it says on the tin.
> 
> How so? http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#luaL_register says:
> 
>    If there is a table in package.loaded[libname] or in 
> variable libname,
>    reuses this table instead of creating a new one.
> 
> Perhaps the only thing that's is not clear in the docs is that if
> package.loaded[libname] contains a table then the global variable
> libname is not created. Is that what you mean?
> 

Yes that's exactly what I mean :)

My question is though, why is the global not created?  Having it the way
it is, it seems to me that you can never be sure that the global exists
unless you explicitly create it, therefore making the creation in the
first instance redundant.
 








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