RE: Error reporting: the chunk name

["John Hind" <john.hind@...>]

OK if you *explicitly* start the name with '=' the '=' gets stripped and the
rest of the string is displayed literally (similarly to using the explicit
@).

But this is undocumented, and weird!

If this is the approach, it would be better if lua_load prefixed the '='
*automatically*. Also it would be better if there was a prefix for the
source string case as well because then the first character would always be
a marker and there would be no possibility of ambiguity.

-----Original Message-----
From: lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br
[mailto:lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br] On Behalf Of Luiz Henrique de
Figueiredo
Sent: 20 November 2009 09:55
To: Lua list
Subject: Re: Error reporting: the chunk name

> There are three distinct cases (filename, source code, user-supplied
> name) and there should be an explicit marker for each.

User-supplied names start with '='. See luaO_chunkid.