Re: Non-uniqueness of module names

[Chris Jones <cmsj@...>]

Apologies for resurrecting this months-old thread, but I would like to chime in to support the idea of `require` returning a second result of the path+filename where the module was found. This would be incredibly helpful for me in a plugin loader I'm working on in Hammerspoon. For now I'll go with Sean's ideas further down the thread (thanks Sean!), but having `require` do it for free would be a very welcome convenience!

On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 at 14:45, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

I am not sure you are aware that the module itself already gets
this information:

---- file temp.lua
print(...)

$ lua -l temp
    --> temp    ./temp.lua

Maybe 'require' could simply return this information as a second result?

-- Roberto

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Cheers,

Chris