Re: merging lua files

[Valerio Schiavoni <valerio.schiavoni@...>]

hello Jerome

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Jerome Vuarand
<jerome.vuarand@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why do you need to merge the files ? What about conflicts between
> globals and locals (ie. the top file define a local foo, while the
> bottom file assumed it was a global) ?

That's why I want to make a rewrite:

--a.lua
foo={}

--b.lua
local foo={}

--merged.lua
a_foo={}
local b_foo={}


Maybe there are some caveats I don't see in this approach.

I need to merge lua files because we need to support 'submission of
jobs' which are made by multiple files. The architecture is quite
complex, you can read more here:
http://www.splay-project.org/index.php?page=documentation