Re: package.loaders -> Is modifying it supported?

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

Shaun wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I notice that Lua 5.1 introduces a new table, package.loaders that 
> includes a series of functions that are invoked trying to satisfy a 
> 'require' statement.
>
> Is it this table supported? Is it ok to modify it (from the code that 
> embeds LUA) to introduce generic loaders that should be executed before 
> the existing ones?

I have done this in my system to use my own file lookup logic and to 
load non-lua files using require. It works like a champ.

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