Re:[Feature request]: analogous to --- if __name__ == “__main__”: ---- of python in lua modules

[zzf <zuozhi_fan@...>]

in lua module

if _NAME == nil then

    test()

end

equals

if __name__ == “__main__”: 

like this:

Lua 5.1.4  Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio

> require('md5')

> print(md5._NAME)

md5

>

At 2014-09-21 10:45:32, "Ashish Ranjan" <ashishwave@yahoo.com> wrote:

FEATURE REQUEST: In python , we have a construct 

        if __name__ == “__main__”:  

so that if a module .lua file is executed by itself then this code block executes, but if this module is imported(required() as in lua) by other script file, then this code blosk is not executed. 

Can we have this construct in lua. This will be an important step in life of a lua module.

Kindly see for better explanation http://stackoverflow.com/a/20158605

Ashish Ranjan

ashishwave@yahoo.com