Re: anti...require?

[ketmar <ketmar@...>]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:49:41 +0100
Anders Backman <andersb@cs.umu.se> wrote:

> To load an external module, require 'modulename' is used. This means
> that luaopen_modulename is located in the dll-file.
> 
> Now is there no loaclose_modulename() wich can be called from lua?
> 
> luaclose/luaunload,...?
> 
> If luaopen_module setup tables registrates calls etc, then one also
> want to clear this dynamically, right? or?
there's no official way to 'unload' module. but you can assign nil to
_G['modname'] и packages.loaded['modname']. if there's no other
references, Lua will GC module table. so you can set your own GC
handler and do necessary cleanup.