RE: A die(reason) or exit function is missing, isn't it?

["Jerome Vuarand" <jerome.vuarand@...>]

Jan Schütze wrote:
> so I should call the mainfunction with pcall and ignore its 
> message this way?
> Hmm, should be possible - but looks like an evil hack :-).

In fact it's not an evil hack, it's the way error management works in Lua. It's similar to exceptions in C++. Whether Lua errors or C++ exceptions are a good way to report errors is a religious debate, but in both case it's a reliable, well defined and powerful mechanism. Whether you use it or abuse it is up to you.