Re: Is dofile really called for anymore?

["Stuart P. Bentley" <stuart@...>]

So it's basically just pcall(assert(loadfile(...)))?

My point is, if we can write our own dostring, can't we just as easily  
write our own dofile?

On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:17:58 -0600, steve donovan  
<steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
> <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> > loadfile is already called in protected mode (via lua_load).
>
> I stand corrected - even more reason to keep this very useful
> function!  If it were deprecated, then people would simply have to
> re-invent it.