Re: Mutual requires

[Finn Wilcox <finnw@...>]

On 20/12/2012 19:59, Geoff Leyland wrote:
> Attached.  Note where "add" is required in expression.lua, after expression:new, but before the use of add.  It's not quite like this in the actual code, but this kind of problem does turn up.
I like this solution better.  I'll update my stackoverflow answer.
> Setting package.loaded means that you don't have to return the module at the end of the module, but should you anyway?  Habits die hard.
Probably.  I wouldn't be surprised if there's a Lua implementation out 
there somewhere that overwrites package.loaded.<modulename> with the 
return value (or true if none.)  If you return the table, your module 
will be immune to this.