Re: Penlight library

[Andre Arpin <arpin@...>]

steve donovan <steve.j.donovan <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Andre Arpin <arpin <at> kingston.net> wrote:
> > I think this should be documented clearly instead of being left to the 
reader.
> > It is a trick, clever maybe, but still just a trick.
> 
> The usefulness of the trick is that to install Penlight you just need
> to move the pl folder to the correct place (I really should provide an
> install script that does just that).  Otherwise, you would have to
> move pl.lua _and_ the pl folder.
> 
> The trickery in pl/init.lua comes from the lazy way it loads each
> module, so that it doesn't include every module, only when they are
> referenced.
> 
> steve d.
> 
> 


No the problem is that you have to change your lua_path to use
require 'pl'

This should be documented.

Andre