Re: C and Lua modules

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

> > Could I put up the suggestion that the module adds nothing to the
> > global environment, but instead just returns the module? (that is, a
> > NULL argument to luaL_register)... I believe this is a practice that
> > should be followed by all lua modules, and infact that argument to
> > luaL_register should be scrapped...
>
> This will be the recommendation in Lua 5.2. And luaL_register will be
> deprecated to reflect this.
So, those of us writing Lua modules should make the tables we define our  
modules in as either local or package.loaded[...] rather than making a  
global and returning it?