Re: loadfile and line number

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

On 11/10/2012 15:11, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > Unfortunately, this method is not robust enough.
> > If some part of the line in question matches the same pattern
> > ":(%d+):", it will be captured instead.
>
> You can provide your own name for the chunk (easier in Lua 5.2
> but doable in 5.1). Just choose a name that does not contain that
> pattern.

Yes, this is an option (and I thought about that).
It'd be however much better if those functions returned the line number 
as their 3-rd return value. Then all the trickery wouldn't be necessary.

--
Shmuel