Re: Can I get two instances of the same module?

Hi Thomas Jericke,

I tried this way now,

local aaa = require "account"
package.loaded["account"] = nil
local bbb = require "account"
print(aaa)
print(bbb)

The result is

table: 0x1296990
table: 0x1296990

And I tested more than 10 times but all shows same.

I agree with Steve Donovan.

I believe the possibility that the second loading of table is just allocated at the same memory location with the first one **by chance** would be almost very little.

Thank you very much though!!

Sincerely

Journeyer

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2014-03-06 16:13 GMT+09:00 Thomas Jericke <tjericke@indel.ch>:

On 03/06/2014 06:58 AM, Journeyer J. Joh wrote:

Hi,

In PIL (for lua 5.1), there exists a explanation about reloading of a module.

package.loaded["account"] = nil

This is it. So simple.

I tried to get two different instances from the same module with this method like below.

local aaa = require "account"
print(aaa)
package.loaded["account"] = nil
local bbb = require "account"
print(bbb)

But the result shows below.

table: 0x1875950
table: 0x1875950

Both aaa and bbb are same. This isn't what I want. I want them to be different.

I guess my wish is impossible.

I guess the reload by the statement below is only *reloading* of the same module.

package.loaded["account"] = nil

There is no way to make two instances of a module.

Am I right?

Sincerely

Journeyer

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Are you sure that the table isn't just allocated at the same place, after all you don't use local aaa anymore. Maybe you can try

local aaa = require "account"
package.loaded["account"] = nil
local bbb = require "account"
print(aaa .. ', ' .. bbb)

Just wondering
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Thomas