Re: A major problem with the Lua ecosystem

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Dibyendu Majumdar once stated:
> On 2 February 2018 at 22:00, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> 
> >   Lua modules written in Lua can be renamed easily---just change the name of
> > the file [1].  Modules written in C can't be renamed without a code change
> > due to possible linking restrictions [2]---Lua looks for
> > "luaopen_modulename" when loading a C-based module.
> 
> I was thinking that require should allow an optional module name -
> i.e. lookup as now, but use the module name (if given) when saving the
> reference. That way, the name of the module inside Lua becomes
> independent of how the module was resolved.

  Example?  My own syslog module is in C, and the exported symbol is

	luaopen_org_conman_syslog

  -spc