[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index] - Subject: Re: hyphens in module names
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 10:48:26 -0300
> The purpose of the following comment in the Lua Reference Manual was > not immediately clear to at least two people: > > "Moreover, if the module name has a hyphen, its prefix up to (and > including) the first hyphen is removed. For instance, if the module > name is a.v1-b.c, the function name will be luaopen_b_c." > > This appears to be intended to allow multiple versions of a module to > be named without modifying their binary interface. > > Having the version number be a prefix rather than a postfix is a bit > unorthodox though. Yes, that was a design mistake. We may correct that for 5.2. -- Roberto
