Re: How to tell if running script directly?

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 05.04.2014 20:43 schröbte tonyp@acm.org:
> (Does anyone see any possibility of this method not working in all
> possible cases, e.g., certain corner cases it would fail?)
>
> From: Kevin Martin
> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 6:56 PM
> To: tonyp@acm.org
> Subject: Fwd: How to tell if running script directly?
>
>   If some code is called through require, then the chunk has the name
> given to require as it's first argument, if executed, there are no
> arguments to the chunk.

Unless you have commandline arguments which in addition to the global 
`arg` table also end up in `...` ...

>   So, for testing, I do
>
>   local requirename = …
>   if requirename then
>   return moduletable
>   end

Philipp