Re: A question on the definition of a chunk

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> [1] http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#3.3.2
> "The unit of execution of Lua is called a chunk. Syntactically, a
> chunk is simply a block:
> 	chunk ::= block"

The fact that a chunk is a block does not mean that any block is a
chunk. Chunks do not nest (unlike blocks). A chunk is an outermost block
which you feed to "load".

-- Roberto