Re: Standard Lua Library

[Adrian Sietsma <adrian_groups@...>]

Mark Edgar wrote:
[...]
> However, I feel that in order for such an API to be useful, it must 
> integrate strongly with the core libraries.  The "ex" API currently 
> integrates with the core libraries in the following ways:
>
> Augmenting the io namespace (io.pipe)
> Augmenting the os namespace (many functions)
> Augmenting the file metatable with lock() and unlock() methods
> Reimplementing os.getenv()
> Redefining os.remove() to remove directories
> Returning actual file objects from io.pipe()
could the "ex" (or whatever) library have a parameter to "require" to
control whether it loads into "ex" and/or updates io,os etc ?

Adrian