Re: [proposal] require resources

["Soni \"They/Them\" L." <fakedme@...>]

On 2020-01-19 11:20 p.m., Egor Skriptunoff wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 4:26 AM Soni "They/Them" L. wrote:
>
>     If you had:
>
>     LUA_PATH/foo/init.lua
>     LUA_PATH/foo/bar/init.lua
>     LUA_PATH/foo/bar/res.txt
>
>     then require("foo.bar", "res.txt") would get you the contents of
>     LUA_PATH/foo/bar/res.txt
>
>
>
> Should require() cache resources the same way as modules?

not quite the same: yes, but with __mode="v"

> Would it be possible to have a module containing only resources 
> without any code?

yes

> Could main program have its own resources (files from the same directory)?
> require(nil, "res.txt")

evil, but maybe? why not just put them in a submodule?

> Resources might be large enough, so it would be better to return a 
> pseudo-file object
> instead of huge Lua string.
> local res = open_resource("foo.bar", "res.txt")
> local data = res:read("*a")
> res:close()

tell me, when was the last time you didn't need to keep your app's icons 
loaded once you loaded them for the first time? in any case __mode="v" 
should help with this.