Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Custom-naming of preloaded modules

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> My present version is:
> 
> static int dolibrary (lua_State *L, const char *name) {
>   int status;
>   char *eq = strchr(name,'=');
>   lua_getglobal(L, "require");
>   if (eq) lua_pushstring(L, eq+1);
>   else lua_pushstring(L, name);
>   status = docall(L, 1, 1);  /* call 'require(name)' */
>   if (status == LUA_OK) {
>     if (eq) *eq = 0;
>     lua_setglobal(L, name);  /* global[name] = require return */
>     if (eq) *eq = '=';
>   }
>   return report(L, status);
> }
> 
> Luiz has neither approved nor rejected the temporary modification of
> a character inside a "const char*", but the compiler is happy :-)

You should remove the 'const' here, but otherwise the assignment is
correct; ANSI C assures that the strings pointed to by 'argv' are
modifiable (and you don't need to restore its value).

-- Roberto