Re: Is dofile really called for anymore?

[Pan Shi Zhu <pan.shizhu@...>]

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Stuart P. Bentley
<stuart@testtrack4.com> wrote:
> If the accepted idiom for doing a string is assert(loadstring(...))(), why
> not remove dofile and just use assert(loadfile(...))() in its place? The
> only reason I can see dofile() having its own function is for opening Lua
> libraries, from before require() was introduced.

does it provide any advantage calling assert(loadfile(...))()  instead
of dofile() ?

I can't see any reason using assert(loadfile(...))()


we probably need a dostring() or eval(), instead of remove the dofile().