Re: Why the dot in package.path? ..and finding the source filename

[Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@...>]

On Jul 9, 2009, at 3:41 AM, David Manura wrote:

> The mapping of module names to file paths is contained inside
> package.path and package.cpath.  You can parse this information
> yourself--for example, see [1].

Hmmm... right... but that doesn't address cases where you have  
multiple modules in one file [1], or one module defined across  
multiple files [2][3], or multiple modules across multiple files  
aggregated into one file [4], or code which hasn't been loaded through  
'require' [5], or ... pick your poison :)

[1] http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP/URL.lua
[2] http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP/HTTP.lua
[3] http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP/HTTPExtra.lua
[4] http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP/Makefile
[5] http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP/Nanoki.lua