Re: local "module" pattern without module [was Re: [ANN] SLAXML - pure Lua, robust-ish, SAX-like streaming XML processor]

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Kevin Martin <kev82@khn.org.uk> wrote:
> I believe this was pretty much my solution, except I used package.preload in
> init.lua to define the module table instead of a separate file.

Yes, this effectively does this using the require() mechanism. More
easy to explain the magic later.

> Is that necessarily a good idea?

Well, nowadays people expect require() to return something other than
'true', and may get a wee bit confused.  Some documentation and
examples should remedy that, however.

steve d.