RE: Changing behaviour of require and dofile

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

> 
> > can anyone give me any idea of what I will need to do to get lua to
> > check for the existance of a compiled file when require and dofile
> are
> > called?
> 
> Lua loads source and precompiled files transparently. So, for require
> it's
> a simple matter of setting LUA_PATH or package.path correctly. For
> instance:
> 	precompiled/?.lua;source/?.lua
> 
> For loadfile etc, you can redefine them to look in the path above.

Thanks for the help and advice.  My system gets a little bit more
complicated than just loading one file over another as the compiled
files live in a pack file in a virtual file system, so I actually need
to redirect the file io to use the vfs.  I've had to shelve this work
for a couple of days, but I will have a look at Pete's suggestions when
I get back onto it.


 
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