Re: luac & 5.2?

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On 30 March 2012 23:38, Patrick Donnelly <batrick@batbytes.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Petite Abeille
> <petite.abeille@gmail.com> wrote:
>> $ lua TestC.luac
>> TestA   nil
>> TestB   nil
>> TestA   TestA
>> TestB   TestB
>> TestC
>>
>> Note how the modules have been invoked twice, once with a null argument, and once with their file name.
>
> This is clearly caused by the "main" function generated by luac
> running each source file successively. Finally, the two require lines
> in TestC.lua loading each Test[AB].lua file again and running them.
>
> I don't have time to check but I suspect luac is generating a main
> function that looks like this:
>
> do
>  <TestA.lua>
> end
> do
>  <TestB.lua>
> end
> do
>  <TestC.lua>
> end
>
> When using the (deprecated) module function, it changes the _ENV of
> this main function and so sabotages all source files later on.
>
> --
> - Patrick Donnelly
>

Huh I do not see a problem.
https://gist.github.com/2256730

Liam