Re: Why not Just PHP-stupid include?

[Tomas Guisasola Gorham <tomas@...>]

	Hi Patrick

On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Patrick Mc(avery wrote:
> Could you elaborate on why you think loading external code is easy? dofile 
> locals are already out of scope and require forces the use of tables and it's 
> quite verbose.
	In fact, the scope of a local is a feature :-)  If you want a global
scope, just use a global variable :-)
	I think you are misunderstanding Lua's design.  These
constructions (require + tables + locals etc.) are there to enable the
construction of modules [1].  I think the "text based include" is not
viewed as a good characteristic, since it promotes hidden dependencies.

	Regards,
		Tomás

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_programming