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On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:58 AM, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:This isn't quite true. dofile is not protected from errors during
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Pan Shi Zhu <pan.shizhu@gmail.com> wrote:
>> does it provide any advantage calling assert(loadfile(...))() instead
>> of dofile() ?
>
> It does have different semantics - the first form throws an exception,
> the second one is protected. To get the same semantics, you need more
> checking, so dofile() is best.
load. Apparently the only functional difference between the two code
snippets is the stack traceback:
batrick@neverwinter:~$ lua
Lua 5.1.4 Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> assert(loadfile("blah"))()
stdin:1: cannot open blah: No such file or directory
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'assert'
stdin:1: in main chunk
[C]: ?
> dofile("blah")
cannot open blah: No such file or directory
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'dofile'
stdin:1: in main chunk
[C]: ?
Functionally dofile can be equivalently replaced with:
>> we probably need a dostring() or eval(), instead of remove the dofile().
>
> We used to have a dostring(), but it's an easy function to write.
function dofile (name)
local f, err = loadfile(name)
if not f then error(err) end
return f()
end
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- Patrick Donnelly