Re: Why not Just PHP-stupid include?

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I dunno, why can node.js do  it right on modules so simply,
> albeit in general Lua would be a much saner language than javascript.

There's not much difference between the require functions in Lua and Node.

The search paths work differently.

Node has a magic "exports" object whereas Lua lets the programmer choose
the name of the exported table which must be explicitly returned.

Node and Lua-5.1 suppress recursive requires. Lua-5.2 does not.

The differences in scoping seem to have more to do with differences
between JavaScript and Lua rather than anything to do with modules per se.

Tony.
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