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- Subject: Re: Small inaccuracy in manual
- From: Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 18:12:55 +0200
2018-02-24 18:02 GMT+02:00 Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com>:
> The manual says under 'package.loaded':
>
> When you require a module modname and package.loaded[modname] is
> not false, require simply returns the value stored there.
>
> This formulation is precise and correct.
>
> Under 'require', it says:
>
> The function starts by looking into the package.loaded table to
> determine whether modname is already loaded.
>
> This formulation is less precise but not incorrect.
>
> And under luaL_requiref:
>
> "If modname is not already present in package.loaded, calls
> function openf .."
>
> This formulation is wrong. If modname is present but false, openf is not called.
Oops, I mean "is also called", not "is not called".