Re: Yieldable require

[Daurnimator <quae@...>]

On 19 May 2017 at 02:47, Pierre-Yves Gérardy <pygy79@gmail.com> wrote:
> For Lua 5.1 and 5.2, https://github.com/pygy/require.lua does the same
> in plain Lua, no patch required.
>
>     require = require'require'.require
>
> and you're ready to go
>
> I haven't kept up with Lua 5.3 though, and I don't know if the
> `require()` differs from v5.2.
>
> if it doesn't replace the line above with (in Lua 5.3)
>
>     require = require('require').require52
>
>
> —Pierre-Yves

Thanks for the link. Good to see someone has made it available for 5.1 and 5.2.

I wrote mine in C to echo the same thing I wrote in JS. See
https://github.com/fengari-lua/fengari/pull/51/files
But I'm also hoping that Roberto may consider adding something similar
in the next major lua release.