Re: How to properly initialize a module?

[Tim Caswell <tim@...>]

I think stock lua's require allows this and I know I do in Luvit, but
often I'll make the module itself be a function instead of a table.
Then it would be

local Canvas = require('canvas')
local canvas = Canvas('/dev/fb0')

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
<lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> So I implemented something like this:
>>
>>   require 'canvas'
>>   canvas.init('/dev/fb0')
>>   -- canvas usage
>
> To make it prettier, export a function
>
>        function canvas.with(options)
>                canvas.init(options)
>                return canvas
>        end
>
> and use it as
>
>        local canvas = require'canvas'.with'/dev/fb0'
>        -- canvas usage
>