I would like to make calls to io.stderr:write() be silent sometimes but I am unable to redefine that function temporarily. Below is a tiny example of what I tried. This doesn't work. What does?
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local function nothing()
end
io.stderr:write("hello world!\n")
-- Trying to make io.stderr:write() be silent
local my_write = write
write = nothing
io.stderr:write("hello world yet again!\n")
-- Trying to make io.stderr:write() to work again
write = my_write
io.stderr:write("hello world yet again and again!\n")
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Robert McLay, Ph.D.
Manager of Software Tools, HPC
