Re: Packaging and importing

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> > Please, could you elaborate on that?  What change on module()
> > are you proposing?

> Don't have it populate the global namespace. [...]
> This change "fixes" two things:
> 
> 1. It prevents using require and then referring to the required entity via
> the global instead of a local.
> 
> 2. It discourages relying on some other piece of code doing the require that
> populated the global namespace.
> 
> The downside is that it makes command line coding more of a pain. If table
> were a module for example, you would have to write:

I guess you can fix the two problems without the downside by making
"module" do not inherit globals into the new environment.

-- Roberto