Re: setting _ENV in Lua 5.2 when loading a file...?

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

Michal Kottman <k0mpjut0r@gmail.com> writes:
> I could not find the message on this list, but I remember an
> 'io.lines' trick to do the job with load:
>
> function myloadfile(filename, env)
>   return load(io.lines(filename, '*L'), filename, 't', env)
> end

Hmm, I expect that's not very efficient for extremely large files
though... (even read"*a" is horrible for extremely large files!)

Thanks,

-Miles

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