Re: mathlib

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Tim Hill once stated:
> 
> On Apr 7, 2014, at 6:50 PM, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> 
> >  Your mention of "the right compiler" triggered a thought:  is the fagility
> > of require() due to Windows and not inherently with Lua itself?  (Or maybe a
> > distinction between a consumer operating system like Windows/Mac OS-X and a
> > non-consumer operating system like Unix? [1]) [2]
> 
> Partly, yes I think it is. But it’s also one of the more intricate designs
> in Lua, which makes creating predictable installs of libraries hard to do
> unless you control the complete OS installation, libraries, and scripts,
> even assuming you can compile things cleanly.

  Then how do other langauges like Perl, Python, PHP or Ruby handle this? 
They all have a way of loading additional code (or modules).

  -spc