Re: Loading all modules in package.path automatically

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick@...>]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Joe Andresen <joe.andresen@gmail.com> wrote:
> is it possible to require all give modules in a path without knowing their
> names?
>
> Will this work with subdirectories of that path as well? or does that have
> to be included in package.path?

Lua simply appends the module name to each path and then tries to open
the file. It has no concept of a directory so it cannot iterate over
the files in a directory for modules to load.

On the other hand, you can construct LUA_INIT so that it requires all
modules in a directory with some fancy bash code (an exercise left to
the reader).

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- Patrick Donnelly